While a young language learner can more easily acquire a native accent, adults retain the ability to learn new languages well into later life.
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The ‘moral foreign language effect’ makes you more rational, and less emotional.
Use all the language skills that you have at your disposal to think freely about your work.
Our brains find it easier to process a familiar accent, meaning irony often gets lost in interpretation.
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.
International varieties of English aren’t ‘wrong’ just because they differ from native speaker English.
When it comes to language learning, not all subtitles are made equal.
The US is home to more international migrants than any other country. But even though immigration is an actively debated topic, immigrants are poorly understood.
The almost complete absence of French at the Public Order Emergency Commission does not come from a subservient reflex on the part of French speakers so much as their fear of being scorned.
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