Learning a new language is more than just acquiring the ability to communicate in another tongue; it’s a profound journey that expands your cognitive horizons, fundamentally altering the way your ...

New research examining auditory mechanisms of language learning in babies has revealed that infants as young as three months of age are able to automatically detect and learn complex dependencies ...

Some people seem to pick up a second language with relative ease, while others have a much more difficult time. Now, a new study suggests that learning to understand and read a second language may be ...

The ability to learn a second language may depend less on linguistic skills and more on the ability to recognize patterns, according to new research. “These new results suggest that learning a second ...

For years there has been a debate in the field of linguistics over whether there is a critical period in a child's development that allows them to better learn new languages. The earlier the better ...

Rhythm may not come naturally to some people. A new study suggests those people might not be great talkers either. Scientists studied a group of high school students,and found those who were better at ...

First opposable thumbs, then “Jeopardy!,” and now this. The number of distinctions that homo sapiens can boast about has been whittled yet again — we’re no longer unique in having developed ...

Quantum physics as a Shakespearean sonnet. Trade theory explained by a pirate. A children’s story about a space-faring dinosaur. People have had fun asking modern chatbots to produce all sorts of ...

Have you ever felt like you have simply mastered the French language after a few glasses of champagne? Well, it's not just you. A new study revealed acute alcohol consumption can indeed improve your ...