Open Culture
Thanks to the research efforts of the Foreign Service Institute, the center of
foreign-language training for the United …
LanguageThe Conversation
Why is it that humans speak so many languages? And why are they so unevenly
spread across the planet? As it turns out, we …
LanguageDigital Culturist
The oldest written language in the world didn’t have an alphabet. When written
language began, it wasn’t used to …
LanguageNautilus
Losing your native tongue unmoors you not only from your own early life but
from the entire culture that shaped you.
LanguageBBC
What’s actually the best, science-backed way to learn a language? To find out, I teamed up with two researchers at …
LanguageThe New Yorker
What can hyperpolyglots teach the rest of us?
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