Can an adult learn to speak a second language with the accent of a native? Not likely, but new research suggests that we would make better progress, and be understood more easily by our conversational ...

A new study of people who speak many languages has found that there is something special about how the brain processes their native language. In the brains of these polyglots—people who speak five or ...

Languages are important for communication, culture, education and business across the world. There are thousands of languages spoken in the world . But very few with very large native speaking ...

New research shows that a majority of Indigenous languages in America are endangered. NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Native American language preservationist Alaina Tahlate. Language researchers just ...

Growing up in the bilingual city of Kyiv in the 1990s, I studied the Ukrainian language like a museum object—intensely, but at a distance, never quite feeling all of its textures or bringing it home.

EdSource · Hot classrooms, leaky roofs — one student’s fight for better school facilities (Rebroadcast) When Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly said, “I only speak American” during a meeting of ...