Language learning is often a daunting prospect. Many of us wish we had learned a language to a higher level at school. But ...

Learning a new language brings a whole range of interesting benefits, but how can they be applied to academic goals? The truth is there are plenty of ways that picking up a second language can help a ...

This is a wonderful question because technology works best when it is used as a tool to help solve problems. For example, in-person immersion is a highly desirable way to accelerate language learning, ...

Adding to the deep body of research associating mental acuity with a lower risk of Alzheimer’s disease, a study published online on July 8 by the journal Neurology suggests that people who possess ...

Ph.D. candidate Yuchen Lian (LIACS) wants to understand why human languages look the way they do—and find inspiration to ...

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There was an exchange during a recent Senate hearing about abortion policy that set off a furious side debate. It was less about abortion and really more about language. The whole exchange is too long ...

The world has changed considerably since our last ”think week” five months ago—and so has Every. We’ve added new business ...

We’ve been wondering what goes on inside the minds of animals since antiquity. Dr. Doolittle’s talent was far from novel when it was first published in 1920; Greco-Roman literature is lousy with ...