Pidgin evolved at the height of the slave trade in the 1700s and 1800s, to enable the buying and selling of millions of human ...

President Trump has repeatedly called tariffs "the most beautiful word in the dictionary." NPR's Word of the Week explores ...

While many Estonians associate the country's manors with beautiful architecture and landscaping, Kristina Jõekalda, senior ...

College professors report that over the past decade or two, they’ve seen a dramatic decline in the expansiveness of the ...

Fluency in a foreign language is often thought to be about speaking quickly and using advanced vocabulary. However, researchers from Waseda University reveal that speakers who use common, everyday ...

Liverpool, as David Swift points out in this book, occupies a disproportionately large place in the UK media and public consciousness (here too, I’d suggest). At roughly half a million inhabitants it ...

Founder Pranita Nayar reflects on ten years of creating bold new work with Mandala South Asian Performing Arts.

The story on this page has some tougher vocabulary words and questions to improve your understanding and English grammar.

When you want to learn a new language, it is challenging for many reasons. Mulling over new vocabulary, grammar, and speech patterns is one thing, but gaining the confidence to practice speaking is ...

The English language has changed completely in the course of a thousand years, due to both historical events and language-internal processes. This course offers an introduction to the rich history of ...