Twelve years ago, Google first piloted Chromebooks in classrooms. Today, technology and apps are a regular part of learning experiences in every subject, including English as a second language (ESL), ...

Just because you can't explore the world doesn't mean you have to stop learning about it. The coronavirus crisis has left many people housebound and eager to find productive ways to pass the time. One ...

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The company, which counts Ashton Kutcher and four-hour obsessive Tim Ferriss among its backers, is doing it, in part, by enlisting new language learners to translate the web. It’s an approach that ...

Virtual reality often means different things to different people. It has enchanted gamers around the world for decades, offering varied levels of immersive entertainment – desktop VR, 360 cell phone ...

The online language learning market is transforming workforce training and global collaboration for enterprises. Enhanced digital solutions are enabling organizations to upskill talent, drive ...

Parallel Learning raised a $20M Series B funding round. The round was led by Valspring Capital, with additional capital ...

While most academic instruction was in-person during fall quarter, language classes were an anomaly, remaining mostly virtual because of issues posed by mask-wearing in a language learning environment ...

The trouble with learning a foreign language is that to become fluent – or even just to be passably coherent in a reasonable timeframe – you need to be immersed in it. You need to live in a country ...

It may seem counterintuitive to be learning a language in a world where international travel is indefinitely on hold, but it seems now more than ever people are willing to give it a try. The question ...

The 15th annual National Chinese Language Conference (NCLC) was a convening of nearly 1,000 Chinese language teachers and education leaders from 16 different countries across the globe. Over the ...