Learning a new language as an adult is big undertaking – so if you want the best value for your time, choose wisely. For most people, there are no time constraints on becoming fluent in another ...

Some may remember taking foreign language classes during school or in preparation for a new job or some travel. There are over 7,100 spoken languages in the world, according to Ethnologue. While it’s ...

Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Vol. 38, No. 2, SPECIAL ISSUE: Cognitive Perspectives on Difficulty and Complexity in SLA (June 2016), pp. 239-263 (25 pages) This study investigates the ...

JOHNSON gets mail. Tom K., a reader in Ottawa, asks: I had always understood English to be a reasonably easy language to learn, because it lacks many of the features that make other languages ...