Adriana Weisleder knows well the benefits of being bilingual: being able to communicate with one’s community, cultivating connection with one’s heritage culture, contributing to the richness and ...

Knowing another language opens doors for kids and adults alike. But most educators agree that childhood is the ideal time for language learning. While their brains don’t actually work like sponges and ...

It's well established that children have an easier time learning second languages.

Lauren: Learning a new language seems like a big challenge in the beginning, and that’s because it is. Many of us started our language learning in the classroom, where we’re taught through ...

Learning a new language is not only fun, you can also make new friends while traveling or talk to bilingual family members. Plus, knowing another language is a marketable skill in a variety of fields.

It is common for Australian children to grow up with languages other than English in their family lives. More than one-fifth ...

Language apps have turned daily study into a game, but the gap between tapping through multiple-choice drills and actually ...

Carlos do Amaral Freire, a Brazilian linguist, easily translates 60 languages, including Chinese, Portuguese and Sanskrit. Is he a genius? A freak of nature? Surprisingly, Freire probably isn't much ...