Shortly after downloading the Tandem app I’m trying to explain the finer points of using the English auxiliary verb ‘will’ in a messaging chat with Juan, 35, from the Dominican Republic. I’ve already ...

Google Translate could soon add AI-powered language lessons A new “Practice” mode will challenge Duolingo with personalized learning activities Search Google in translated languages with one tap ...

When John Lee Clark was five years old, in 1983, he entered a small Deaf program within a public school near his home in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Clark was a dreamy kid who dressed in tucked-in button ...

When I am with my family in public, we are often asked what language we are speaking, or where we are from. The most common guesses are Russian, Polish or Latvian – none of which are correct. Growing ...

Back in August, Massively wrote a little post about Swedish research on MMOs and language learning. That article provoked me, a gamer and teacher of English for speakers of other languages (ESOL), to ...

This is a wonderful question because technology works best when it is used as a tool to help solve problems. For example, in-person immersion is a highly desirable way to accelerate language learning, ...

Nina Paulovicova is an academic advisor of the International and Heritage Languages Association in Edmonton, AB, Canada. She received a small grant for the project titled "Heritage language schools’ ...

deaf with a lowercase d describes the audiological condition of hearing impairment. Deaf with a capital D refers to those individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing who “view themselves as a unique ...

"Before, Spanish was never spoken," Aurelia Ojeda explained, translating her mother Virginia Melendrez’s words from Kumeyaay to Spanish. "For example, she and my grandmother, with my 'nana,' it was ...

Photo courtesy of Just Travel During the recent cyclone Ditwah disaster, we saw in real time how language discrimination ...