Too many Americans today can’t speak a second language, or even speak and write English sufficiently, writes Lynne Agress.

Psycholinguistics is a field at the intersection of psychology and linguistics, and one of its recent discoveries is that the languages we speak influence our eye movements. For example, English ...

As globalization and communication overwhelms local cultures, what will become of all our languages? In colonial times, the dominant powers often banned the speaking of native tongues. It’s a power ...

The English language has at least half a million words, depending on what dictionary you're looking at. English consists of letters running from the left side of the page to the right, while other ...

Many of us have had the experience, when sitting in a foreign language class or visiting another country, of fumbling for the words to convey our thoughts. In a brilliant essay from his book Me Talk ...

If you’re enrolling your child in California state-subsidized preschool this fall, you’ll be asked new questions about what languages they speak and understand. It’s part of a new effort to identify ...

Learning a foreign language isn’t exactly a royal rule, but it is highly encouraged, given how much they travel and meet with world leaders. In the royal family, greeting a president, prime minister, ...