Learning a new language requires a lot of time, but not necessarily a lot of money. Whether you're traveling to a foreign ...

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

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

Lera Boroditsky once did a simple experiment: She asked people to close their eyes and point southeast. A room of distinguished professors in the U.S. pointed in almost every possible direction, ...

Roughly 34 million children around the world are affected by some sort of hearing loss, including deafness. Deafness is a type of hearing loss that results in having very little to no functional ...

You’ve probably heard that being multilingual is a great resume builder and a valuable asset to promote career growth. Being able to speak a language that’s in demand may even result in a promotion or ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. Language is a beautifully intricate system that allows us to express our ...

No one prepared me for the heartbreak of losing my first language. It doesn’t feel like the sudden, sharp pain of losing someone you love, but rather a dull ache that builds slowly until it becomes a ...

An analysis of language used in grants awarded this year by the U.S. National Institutes of Health suggests that researchers ...