Children learn language effortlessly and completely voluntarily. They learn new words miraculously fast. A teenager masters about 60,000 words of their mother tongue by the time they finish high ...
Kids listen. They might not seem like they're paying attention all the time, but they are tuned in to the words, phrases and tone their parents use. They carry those things with them throughout their ...
OXON HILL, Md. — As the final pre-competition meeting of the Scripps National Spelling Bee’s word selection panel stretches into its seventh hour, the pronouncers no longer seem to care. Before ...