California has an opportunity to lead by ensuring its public school systems recognize and support the rights of Native Americans to use, practice, maintain, and revitalize their languages, as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As Native language programs flourish in classrooms, Indian centers, tribal meeting rooms and online, President Donald Trump issued ...

Can an adult learn to speak a second language with the accent of a native? Not likely, but new research suggests that we would make better progress, and be understood more easily by our conversational ...

For many diasporic Latines, an inevitable argument arises around identity and language. If you don’t speak the primary language of your home country, whether that’s Spanish, French or Portuguese, the ...

Languages are important for communication, culture, education and business across the world. There are thousands of languages ...

Classrooms at Unalaska City High School are usually empty on Friday evenings as students and staff headed off for the weekend. But on one winter Friday, things were different. A group of people ...

A new study of people who speak many languages has found that there is something special about how the brain processes their native language. In the brains of these polyglots—people who speak five or ...

Growing up in the bilingual city of Kyiv in the 1990s, I studied the Ukrainian language like a museum object—intensely, but at a distance, never quite feeling all of its textures or bringing it home.

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig have found evidence that the language we speak shapes the connectivity in our brains that may underlie the way ...

For most of us, presenting confidently and clearly in our native language is hard enough. But communicating in another language is marked by unique challenges and opportunities for growth. Fortunately ...