Someday soon when traveling to a foreign country where you don’t speak the language, understanding locals may be as easy as pulling on a pair of augmented-reality glasses. Last month, ...

Though it still seems a bit like science fiction, we’ve reached the day where we can speak or type into our smartphones and have an artificial intelligence interpreter translate our speech or text ...

Let's face it — one of the most awkward situations you can find yourself in is having a communication gap when you're in a foreign country. Gone are the days of hiring a translator or relying solely ...

Traveling to destinations where you don't speak the local language can leave you lost in translation. Communicating in the local language helps advance cultural exchange and improves engagement with ...

The Google Translate app is handy on your phone, but you should still do some homework before use at a travel destination. (Dreamstime) Traveling to destinations where you don’t speak the local ...

Overview Language learning apps offer interactive lessons, native speaker practice, and smart tools to help you learn ...

In Europe, nine out of 10 students study a foreign language. In the United States, only one in five does. From 1997 to 2008, the number of American middle schools offering foreign languages dropped ...

While you may not master every language ahead of a multistop tour through Asia, these apps and digital tools can help you get by (and maybe make you some friends). By Naaman Zhou For an ...

Sometimes you don’t realize what you’ve been missing out on until it finally happens. For me, it was hearing my Chinese mother tell me she loved me for the first time. I was 39 years old. A language ...

This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. For the past 643 consecutive ...