Papua New Guinea is the world’s capital of linguistic diversity, with more than 10 per cent of the world’s living languages – but this diversity is endangered. Community after community continue to ...

Of English lessons, too, it is a pleasure to speak. It gives me opportunity to brag of an uncle who, with the unlikely talisman of a doctor’s thesis on French Agglutinations in ‘ De-’ tucked in his ...

An earlier study had raised doubts about the effectiveness of learning English in the first grade. Now, researchers have observed that it improves language performance over an extended period of time.

I’ve always wanted to be fluent in multiple languages, but at 27 years old with just English under my belt, I think I’m falling behind on my polyglot dream. It’s partly my fault — I studied French in ...

When Olena Chekryzhova followed in her grandmother's footsteps and began teaching English, she never dreamed the job would lead to a monthslong stay at a front-line military base. But that has become ...

Ha Jin was never terribly interested in learning English. After the Cultural Revolution ended and Chinese universities finally reopened in 1977, the 21-year-old applied to Heilongjiang University and ...