A new study of people who speak many languages has found that there is something special about how the brain processes their native language. In the brains of these polyglots—people who speak five or ...

People across the world describe their thoughts and emotions, share experiences and spread ideas through the use of thousands of distinct languages. These languages form a fundamental part of our ...

Africa is a multilingual continent and many adults speak several languages fluently. An empirical study by a psycholinguist now shows that the roots of this multilingualism can be found in infancy: In ...

Flight attendants switch languages mid-announcement and make it look effortless, but how many languages do they actually have to know to get the job?