languages
23/07/2022 - 12:02
I'm standing in line at my local bakery in Paris, apologising to an incredibly confused shopkeeper. He's just asked how many pastries I... →
29/09/2018 - 15:22
Rojas-Berscia is a twenty-seven-year-old Peruvian with a baby face and spiky dark hair. A friend had given him a new pair of earrings,... →
18/12/2017 - 12:16
A study by Emma Byrne investigated how swearing on Twitter was used by fans at football games. It was, at least for those supporters,... →
30/03/2017 - 15:54
Despite all the fuss that has been made about the ‘bilingual advantage’, most researchers have moved on from the simplistic ‘is there an... →
20/01/2016 - 14:11
And Redmond plans to keep adding languages to the app. “This takes Skype one step closer to our mission of empowering people to do more,... →
28/11/2015 - 00:54
1. KNOW WHY YOU’RE DOING IT
This might sound obvious, but if you don’t have a good reason to learn a language, you are less likely to stay... →
01/10/2015 - 16:06
Meanwhile the internet, much like the written word, struggles to reflect the linguistic diversity of the spoken word. According to the UN,... →
17/02/2015 - 14:44
For the first half of the twentieth century, researchers actually thought that bilingualism put a child at a disadvantage, something that... →
04/01/2015 - 13:18
Ronen and co-authors from MIT, Harvard University, Northeastern University, and Aix-Marseille University tackled the problem by describing... →
26/08/2013 - 11:37
The Sigmo pairs with iOS and Android devices via Bluetooth, and uses the device’s language translation software to complete the translation... →
16/05/2013 - 15:52
Language pedagogy has come a long way since the days when repetitive grammar-translation methods were regarded as the only way to learn.... →