Should language teaching describe how a language is used, or how it should be used?
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Learning a language gives you unique insights into different cultures, societies and perspectives.
Can you guess which languages score the highest for terms relating to ‘love’, ‘death’, ‘canoe’ or ‘sheep’? We made a tool to help you explore our extensive dataset.
Since 2003, the number of GCSE entries in German has fallen from 125,663 to this year’s 35,913.
The number of students studying languages in UK universities has plummeted in recent years but some creative thinking may help to reverse that trend.
Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK where primary school pupils do not have to learn another language.
The crisis in modern language teaching.
Everyone should learn another language.
The importance of speaking other languages in a post-Brexit world.
Turns out the way you are exposed to new languages could be the key.
Many decry ‘superteams’ like the NBA’s Golden State Warriors as bad for the sport. But psychology research shows that they also make us more likely to watch – and bask in the joy of seeing them fail.
Yiddish was at one time the international language of Ashkenazic Jews, but it’s exact origin has always been somewhat unclear, until now.
Even if you don’t have a word for it, you can make one up.
We really might get gradually worse at learning a new language as we age, says a new study.
Bilinguals think differently depending on the language they’re operating in.
A proposal in Germany to make all migrants speak German in public and at home has ignited a heated debate about immigration and language. The proposals come from the German Christlich-Soziale Union (CSU…
It has become commonplace to hear that English is now a sort of “global” language, or lingua franca. Although this might be partly true, is it right to draw the conclusion that native speakers of English…
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