Anusha Chandika Persad was fifty-two years old when she started learning Hindi. Now at sixty-two, she is a teacher at the Phoenix Hindi Patshala (PHP). "I wanted to become Hindi literate so that I ...

Krupa Padhy uncovers how we really learn foreign languages – in a dual challenge involving both Portuguese and Mandarin. There was a time when my oversized hardback Collins Roberts French dictionary ...

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. From the founding of our Republic, English has been used as our national language. Our Nation’s historic governing documents, including the Declaration of Independence ...

Readers respond to an article by Gary Nunn who says learning Spanish has never been cooler Gary Nunn misses the point of language learning in seeing it as a numbers game (Spanish is clearly now the ...

As Bad Bunny showed at the Super Bowl, español is the coming thing. No wonder it’s now the top GCSE language choice “Now, Gary, repeat after me: Quiero una margarita, por favor,” my Spanish tutor ...

Parents often hear the warning: “If your child doesn’t learn a second language early, they’ll never be fluent.” Adults, meanwhile, are told: “It’s just too late for you to learn now.” These claims are ...

Language learning is deeply personal—but some languages are, objectively, more accessible to native English speakers than others. Factors like shared roots, familiar grammar rules, a common writing ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Older adults may find learning new languages challenging, but recent research shows the effort itself provides ...

“Dhurandhar,” starring Ranveer Singh, has overtaken the Hindi dubbed version of “Pushpa 2: The Rule” to become the highest-grossing Hindi-language film in India. Aditya Dhar directed the film, with ...

TOKYO (AP) — I speak decent Spanish, picked up working several decades ago as a news and sports reporter in Spain, Mexico and Argentina. Now I report from Tokyo. After seven years, I still can’t grasp ...

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. An ...