Since the start of the war in Ukraine, the number of people studying Ukrainian on Duolingo, a language learning website and mobile app, has increased by more than 500%. Most of those who are taking up ...

I’m guessing that I’m not such as old a dog as I think — I’ve been learning some new tricks! But … they’re the same old tricks, only different. Language, for example. Lately, I’ve had cause to look ...

Since the start of the war in Ukraine, the number of people studying Ukrainian on Duolingo, a language learning website and mobile app, has increased by more than 500%. Most of those who are taking up ...

Students studying for exams, competing against each other in areas involving language, and in general, should learn to distinguish between a language and its dialects. While the words are frequently ...

I am so glad that we are now recognised as a people - Caribbean people. In the past we were pegged on to a motherland and so came the confusion over the way we speak. Back then the leaders insisted ...

Does modern Yorkshire still boast a distinctive dialect? Rod McPhee got some answers from Professor Clive Upton of the Yorkshire Dialect Society. Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire ...

SAN ANTONIO – When I was younger, I spoke with a true Texan drawl, a product of my upbringing in West Texas. Somewhere along the way, for better or worse, I lost that accent. Language, dialect and how ...

An ‘Comin through de rye’. At this time in Guyana the issue of national language, of the status, acceptance and official recognition of the Creole language (Creolese or GCE in Guyana) is alive and ...

AS THEY CLEARED their heads after Burns Night on January 25th, having celebrated their national poet with whisky and haggis, another hangover loomed for Scots in less than a week’s time. A majority of ...

Whether someone's speech is a language or a dialect is a matter of both linguistics and politics. illust-monster/iStock/Getty Images Plus In 2022, after the start of ...