Language apps have turned daily study into a game, but the gap between tapping through multiple-choice drills and actually ...

For Estelle Balsirow ’26, language is more than a field of study: it’s a reclamation. Balsirow, a Kalmyk-American linguistics major, is one of the first Yale students to study Kalmyk — an endangered ...

This is not a typical language vlog. We chose a language deeply tied to Orthodox Jewish life - Yiddish - and used it to surprise people in real‑world interactions.

When a judge ordered the Trump administration in September to restore Harvard’s federal funding, programs that received foreign language study grants through the Education Department breathed a sigh ...

Forget snake-oil creams and supplements — learning more than one language is a powerful way to protect against ageing, according to a new study. Speaking multiple languages has always been socially ...

Speaking multiple languages could slow down brain ageing and help to prevent cognitive decline, a study of more than 80,000 people has found. The work, published in Nature Aging on 10 November, ...

A group of researchers studied which language is best understood by artificial intelligence, with Polish in the lead and English only ranking at sixth place. Out of 26 different languages, Polish ...

Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since Aristotle, who wrote that humanity was “the animal that has language.” ...

As fall quarter begins, many students face the question of how to fulfill a foreign language requirement or whether to continue a language already begun. I’ve lived abroad and spent my career in ...

Scientists have long considered the complexity of language to be an obvious separation between humans and all other life forms on Earth. New research, however, suggests our linguistic abilities might ...

Yale’s commitment to language learning is reflected in the distributional requirements — students must gain proficiency in a second language to graduate. Language significantly shapes our thought ...

This summer, Dartmouth’s Chinese language study abroad program returned to Beijing after a five year pause, according to Asian societies, cultures and languages department chair Edward Miller. The ...