Based on their experience training US diplomats, the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) divided all the languages they teach into four distinct categories. The higher the category, the "harder" the ...

English and Spanish are the most common languages spoken in the U.S. but where do the rest rank? Newsweek has mapped tongues from other motherlands, and German comes third. In total, 13 states speak ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters. At Vox, our mission is to help you make sense of the world — and that work has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our own. We ...

The US surprisingly does not have an official language like many other countries around the world. English and Spanish are the most commonly spoken in America, with 91.6 per cent of the population ...

Use an interactive map to find all the degrees taught in English at the top 1,000 universities in the world. There are two fundamental questions every prospective international student needs to ask ...

One of the ways America shows its diverse culture is in the sheer number of languages spoken by the country's people. The above map shows which languages other than English and Spanish are the most ...

English is a language rich in metaphor — take for example the many ways that human behavior can be linked with birds. Someone who is fearful is a chicken, a show-off can be called a peacock and a ...