Older adults may find learning new languages challenging, but recent research shows the effort itself provides significant ...

Amanda Seidl (standing), a Purdue associate professor of speech, language and hearing sciences who studies language acquisition, found that touch can influence how infants learn language. Her research ...

At Connecticut College, students explore intercultural communication skills as an integral part of liberal learning. All students are expected to study another language for at least two semesters; ...

Lauren: Learning a new language seems like a big challenge in the beginning, and that’s because it is. Many of us started our language learning in the classroom, where we’re taught through ...

In just eight weeks, University of Delaware alumna Kiara Cronin went from not speaking any Swahili at all to testing at an intermediate proficiency level — a feat anyone who’s ever attempted to learn ...

In an era of dwindling budgets, universities have identified language programs as an area for possible cuts. Languages with few students are being framed as luxuries that cannot be afforded during a ...

Want to change the world? Another language can help you do that by engaging with today’s problems and developing tomorrow’s solutions. Want to have more job prospects, earn a higher salary, and get ...