Language processing involves two key circuits — one for perceiving and producing sound, which forms the foundation of language, and another for selecting which language's sounds to use, said ...

One hesitation I hear time and time again when I talk to people about traveling is, “But I don’t speak the language.” To be sure, a language barrier can be a bit of a problem when traveling ...

And in the United States, the number of people who speak a language other than English has doubled in the past two decades, from just about 11% to about 22%. Dr. Viorica Marian has spent her career ...

There's one parent-one language, which is what I do with my kid, Leo (ph). I speak to her in Portuguese, and my spouse, Steph (ph), speaks to her in English. There's also minority language at home.

The parents I spoke with who taught their children a heritage language that they themselves didn’t speak fluently had essentially organized their own lives around the effort.

Mixed languages at home: Caregivers and kids all speak all languages simultaneously at home. It may sound confusing, but it works well in practice, Husain says.

People who speak two languages may be better at shifting their attention from one thing to another compared to those who speak one, according to a study published this month in the journal ...

People who speak two languages may be better at shifting their attention from one thing to another compared to those who speak one, according to a study published this month in the journal ...

In India, one of the world’s most polyglot countries, the government wants more than a billion people to embrace Hindi. One scholar thinks that would be a loss.

Twenty-two Angika speakers and five language guardians joined a workshop in Bhagalpur, Bihar, India from April 28–29, 2025, ...

The Knoxville Fire Department uses an on-demand translation and interpretation system to overcome language barriers in emergencies.

“There is no age at which a language, even a native tongue, is so firmly cemented into the brain that it can’t be dislodged or altered by a new one,” Sedivy writes.