Smithsonian Magazine
Dozens of traditional cultures use a whistled form of their native language for long-distance communication. You could, too.
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When considering which foreign languages to study, some people shy away from those that use a different alphabet. Those …
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For linguists, it is a tremendously controversial and fluid topic of study. What are lipreaders actually looking at? Just how …
LanguageBig Think
A new study found that words are more accurately heard when accompanied by hand gestures.
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What’s actually the best, science-backed way to learn a language? To find out, I teamed up with two researchers at …
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What can hyperpolyglots teach the rest of us?
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