Most of you aren’t just dabbling with language learning apps, according to the results of our latest reader poll.

Learning English becomes more natural when you hear it used in real-life situations. This British man’s vlog helps learners improve listening skills, pronunciation, and everyday vocabulary while ...

PM, you have three tabs open with 40-minute lecture videos, a 50-page PDF that feels like it’s written in a different language, and a looming exam that’s starting to feel like a nightmare.

A new study suggests that everyday multilingual habits—from chatting with neighbors to revisiting a childhood language—may help preserve memory, attention, and brain flexibility as we age. An ...

When a judge ordered the Trump administration in September to restore Harvard’s federal funding, programs that received foreign language study grants through the Education Department breathed a sigh ...

Artificial intelligence is beginning to reshape language learning in ways that no longer resemble an experiment. For decades, the process was defined by textbooks, memorization and occasional tutor ...

A new Science paper challenges the idea that language stems from a single evolutionary root. Instead, it proposes that our ability to communicate evolved through the interaction of biology and culture ...

The way sperm whales communicate may be more similar to human language than previously thought. The acoustic properties of whale calls resemble vowels, a defining feature of human language, according ...

Sperm whales swimming off the coast of Dominica. The marine mammals have a complex communication system that scientists are working to decode. Amanda Cotton Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 ...

Speaking multiple languages could slow down brain ageing and help to prevent cognitive decline, a study of more than 80,000 people has found. The work, published in Nature Aging on 10 November, ...

Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since Aristotle, who wrote that humanity was “the animal that has language.” ...

Researchers at the University of Bath and the University of Freiburg won an Ig Nobel Peace Prize for proving what travelers have long suspected. Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist with ...