The language barrier has helped maintain an air of unreality around the papacy in the U.S. That is about to change.

Inuit languages really do have many words for snow, linguists found—and other languages have conceptual specialties, too, ...

The 69-year-old new pope, formerly Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, was elected the first pope from the United States on ...

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Kevin De Bruyne has voiced his frustrations over a lack of empathy from the Manchester City board in contract talks and ...

Does knowing a language mean knowing a lot of words, or how to speak it properly? The answer largely depends on your goals.

Spoken-word poets in Cameroon are using their art form to help communities cope with traumas left by the ongoing civil war.

The novelist J.M. Coetzee and the translator Mariana Dimópulos explore the process that allows a book to move between ...

This is an excerpt from a longer article, which is published online at Noel Quiñones ’15 is a Nuyorican poet, ...

Google on Tuesday is releasing three new AI experiments aimed at helping people learn to speak a new language in a more personalized way. While the ...

Available through Google Labs, the new tools use AI to provide language lessons to help you in real-life situations.

E is pronounced as a long A, so ay, and it’s never silent. Example: carne (meat) is car-nay. I is pronounced as a long E, so ...