Many successful language-learning apps are built around a simple idea of making learners guess a word based on a picture, even before they learn the answer. This design isn't just for fun, but a ...

Interview conducted by Aneta Pavlenko. Our guest today is William Fierman, an Emeritus Professor of Central Eurasian Studies at the University of Indiana in Bloomington and an expert on language ...

There's a common assumption that if someone starts learning a language when they are very young, they will quickly become fluent. Many people also assume that it will become much harder to learn a ...

Giving AI a human-like memory limitation may actually help it learn language better. In their new proof-of-principle study, Abishek Thamma (University of Amsterdam) and Micha Heilbron (Max Planck ...

If you’ve always wanted to learn a new language, don’t let age put you off. People aged over 60 can be independent and flexible in how they learn a language – and successful, too. There is ample ...

Salvador Ordorica is the CEO of The Spanish Group LLC, a first-class international translation service that translates over 90 languages. As our world becomes increasingly interconnected, being able ...

There’s a common assumption that if someone starts learning a language when they are very young, they will quickly become fluent. Many people also assume that it will become much harder to learn a ...

There’s a common assumption that if someone starts learning a language when they are very young, they will quickly become fluent. Many people also assume that it will become much harder to learn a ...