A new study suggests that everyday multilingual habits—from chatting with neighbors to revisiting a childhood language—may help preserve memory, attention, and brain flexibility as we age.

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

My weekly language classes have taught me humility more than anything else. Ayaka Ono, my current Japanese teacher, estimates ...

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

If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

Across the United States, a quiet linguistic shift is underway, reshaping how people speak in ways that are easy to miss in ...

The Choctaw Nation is partnering with Rosetta Stone to develop a comprehensive language learning course as tribal leaders ...

In 2025, Language AI crossed an important threshold in real-world use. These ten Language AI use cases capture key instances ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

Verbal communication is usually straightforward. You open your mouth and say what you want to say. Communication doesn’t only happen verbally. As you speak or listen, you also express feelings and ...