Greek Reporter

The Ex-Slave Who Authored a Greek Language Book

William Sanders Scarborough was an African-American ex-slave who authored a Greek textbook. His First Lessons in Greek ...
Euronews

Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' drives Homer book sales and sparks interest in learning Greek

The release of Nolan's 'The Odyssey' has sparked a huge surge in people wanting to read Homer's ancient poem and learn the Greek language. Some purists, however, aren't best pleased with the cinematic ...
The New Yorker

An Instant Classic About Learning Ancient Greek

When Andrea Marcolongo’s book “La Lingua Geniale,” subtitled “9 ragioni per amare il greco” (“Nine Reasons to Love Greek”), came out in 2016, I bought it, in Italian, and took it with me to Greece. I ...
CNN

The best language learning apps in 2026, tested by our editors

If you’re traveling soon to a place where you don’t know the language well (or at all), then you’ll want to download a language learning app to your smartphone before you embark on your journey. These ...
CNN

Which languages are easiest – and most difficult – for native English speakers to learn?

Many of us have entertained the idea of expanding our horizons. Learning a foreign language is an obvious option. It’s one that I would personally endorse: My individual circumstances were such that, ...