Podcasts, interviews, news channels and movies help you hear natural grammar usage. Listening improves your instinct for what ...

This fall, I am not only teaching in Paris but temporarily directing a program of study abroad. Among the many other changes this shift has produced in my daily life, I find myself no longer on the ...

When I headed to France for a CroisiEurope cruise on the Loire River – a quintessentially French experience – I expected my ...

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The idea that we have brains hardwired with a mental template for learning grammar—famously espoused by Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—has dominated linguistics for almost ...

Professor, Multilingual Education and Associate Dean, Research, York University, Canada Learning a language after one’s early childhood home language is often referred to as second language learning ...

Evidence indicates it becomes harder to learn a language other than our mother tongue as we progress through adulthood. Now, a new study suggests that children are highly skilled at learning the ...

For most native English-speakers, learning the Mandarin Chinese language from scratch is no easy task. Learning it in a class that essentially compresses a one-semester college course into a single ...