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Suppose you decided to start learning a new language—let’s say Italian. In the beginning stages of your language-learning journey, the Italian speech you’ll hear will likely sound like a stream of ...

I wouldn't exactly say the French has been going well. A few decades after I left behind my high school language requirement (and the middling grades that accompanied it), I decided recently it was ...

If your children have begun learning a foreign language in school, it’s a good idea to help them develop their fluency with supplemental materials. While there’s a lot to be said for learning language ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- So far, my favorite sentence in Dutch is “Ik fiets vaak:” I bike often. I’m also a big fan of “heel veel,” which means very much. I learned both from Duolingo, the addictive ...

ROSENDALE, N.Y. — Public libraries in Ulster County are offering the “Transparent Language” app, which anyone with a free library card can use to learn more than 110 languages either in the comfort of ...

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Design by Erin Shi. Buy this photo. I’m standing at a restaurant in southern France, near Montpellier. Aided only by my scarce French 103 knowledge, I’m staying silent and attempting to understand ...

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A small stimulator placed in the outer ear can activate the vagus nerve using unnoticeable electrical pulses to stimulate one of the nerve’s nearby branches. New research by neuroscientists at the ...