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While a young language learner can more easily acquire a native accent, adults retain the ability to learn new languages well into later life.
AI-fueled technologies make communicating in other languages easier than ever, but it still can’t replace the transformative value of learning a new language.
The ‘moral foreign language effect’ makes you more rational, and less emotional.
The findings shake up previous ideas about language learning – and give us an earlier window to help children who might be at risk of speech or language delays.
Indonesia hasn’t made a strategic effort to push bahasa Indonesia in Australia. That’s in stark contrast to how French and other languages are promoted in Australia, including through cultural events.
Language electives have fewer enrolments compared to other subjects in Australia. New research suggests students are interested in studying languages, but can’t.
Watching a foreign film or TV show doesn’t automatically teach you the language – but there are ways to make it stick.
While staying at home during the pandemic, foreign language learners can improve their vocabulary and comprehension by watching films and television shows in the language they are studying.
The Scripps National Spelling Bee highlights the richness of the English lexicon by picking some tough entries with foreign roots.
There are lots of movies labelled as “world cinema” that have been unfairly eclipsed by their inferior English remakes
Better job prospects and richer lives are among the many reasons to learn a foreign language, an expert on foreign language instruction writes.
How members of America’s two parties view the country – and its place in the world – might explain this phenomenon.
Despite increasing globalization, foreign language programs in US colleges have become less common. A foreign language expert says America needs to step up its efforts to turn things around.
In an effort to get a competitive edge in the global jobs market, more US college students are choosing to get international experience, an expert on study abroad says.
Whether it’s due to native language loss or unsupported high school curricula, the lack of bilingualism in the US is notable. Why can’t more Americans speak another language? How should that change?
Everyone should learn another language.
The importance of speaking other languages in a post-Brexit world.
Their critiques may be more gentle, their attacks more circumspect – but they are resonant nonetheless. And when filmmakers like Farhadi confront Trump, they’re on familiar turf: They’ve seen his type back home.
Language learning can make people more open to seeing a new way of doing things and develop a greater level of comfort with unfamiliar situations.
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Adjunct Faculty, Fairleigh Dickinson University
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Lecturer in Sociolinguistics, University of East Anglia
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Senior Lecturer of Cinema Studies, Penn State
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Professor of Spanish and Chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures, University of Delaware
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Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Dean of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Westminster
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Professor of Education, Harvard University
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Professor of Applied Linguistics and Chair of World Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, West Virginia University
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Lecturer in Language Learning and Teaching, University of York
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Associate Professor of Spanish, University of South Florida
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Film, University of York
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Lecturer in Languages Education, University of Sheffield
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Lecturer in Teaching English to Speakers of other Languages (TESOL), University of Essex
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Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies and Linguistics, Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion
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Associate Lecturer in Academic Literacies, CQUniversity Australia
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Associate professor, Research group Language, Education, & Society, KU Leuven