People might feel more comfortable making mistakes if they’re interacting with AI chatbots. But they will miss the nuances that come from conversing with real people.
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Learning another language is not a miracle cure for aging, and it cannot guarantee protection against Alzheimer’s disease. But it does have various other benefits.
Making and analyzing art helps students learn English on a more personal and emotional level than traditional approaches do.
AI-powered technology means it has never been easier to translate between two languages. But that doesn’t mean we should give up on learning another tongue. The benefits still outweigh the effort.
The brain holds on to language knowledge for decades.
Learning a language to speak adequately requires a minimum of around 870 hours. Some Australian states mandate around 1,000 hours through secondary school, but others require less than half that time.
Uganda’s English language policy is at odds with the situation on the ground in the country’s rural schools.
The language learning approach called “plurilingualism” empowers people to draw on many languages and cultural modes of communicating.
For South Korea, hosting the Winter Olympics is a great opportunity to engage the world with Korean language and culture.
We really might get gradually worse at learning a new language as we age, says a new study.
It is important that all South Africans learn to speak an African language. But is making a single language a compulsory university subject the best way to make this happen?
Bilingual children’s progress in learning vocabularly depends on their parents.
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Professor of Linguistics, University of York
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DFG-funded researcher in Afrikanistik (African Studies), University of Leipzig
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Assistant Professor in Second Language Education, McGill University
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Senior Lecturer in Education, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Languages and TESOL
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Lecturer, Department of African Languages, Makerere University
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Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader BA International Studies, Auckland University of Technology
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Educational Studies, University of Windsor
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Senior Research Fellow of Linguistics, University of Colorado Boulder; Griffith University; University of New England
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Associate Professor of Spanish, College of Charleston