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Universities are blaming a “societal shift” for the axing of dozens of foreign language degrees and even entire departments, citing a lack of demand among students…

Reddit announced Thursday that it is expanding its AI-powered search experience to five new languages: French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. With this expansion, the feature…

October 7, 20253 min readBabies’ Brains Recognize Foreign Languages They Heard before BirthBabies process foreign languages they heard in utero much like their mother tongue, researchers…

The Ig Nobel prizes were awarded recently – for science that makes you laugh and then think – and the peace prize was given to a…

September 18, 20253 min readGenetics Can Track How Languages Mixed in the PastNew research shows that wherever human populations mix, their languages blend as wellBy Cody…

Lots of people told me to not study languages – including my own (monolingual) dad. “You’re never going to be as fluent as a native speaker,”…

Despite a once bitter rivalry that dates to before the Spanish Armada in 1588, pupils in England are studying español in greater numbers than ever before,…