After growing up across countries, I knew I wanted my kids to be multilingual — fluent in Dutch, German, and English from birth.

Last year at a celebration of International Mother Language Day in Dhaka, Bangladesh, thousands attend a monument commemorating those killed during the Language Movement demonstrations of 1952. Mehedi ...

As globalization and communication overwhelms local cultures, what will become of all our languages? In colonial times, the dominant powers often banned the speaking of native tongues. It’s a power ...

Psycholinguistics is a field at the intersection of psychology and linguistics, and one of its recent discoveries is that the languages we speak influence our eye movements. For example, English ...

Bilingual people require less brain power to complete tasks compared to people who speak only one language, suggests new research published in the journal Brain and Language. Using functional magnetic ...

If you’re enrolling your child in California state-subsidized preschool this fall, you’ll be asked new questions about what languages they speak and understand. It’s part of a new effort to identify ...

Many of us have had the experience, when sitting in a foreign language class or visiting another country, of fumbling for the words to convey our thoughts. In a brilliant essay from his book Me Talk ...

No one prepared me for the heartbreak of losing my first language. It doesn’t feel like the sudden, sharp pain of losing someone you love, but rather a dull ache that builds slowly until it becomes a ...

Learning a foreign language isn’t exactly a royal rule, but it is highly encouraged, given how much they travel and meet with world leaders. In the royal family, greeting a president, prime minister, ...