A few days ago, I watched a video of myself talking in perfect Chinese. I’ve been studying the language on and off for only a few years, and I’m far from fluent. But there I was, pronouncing each ...

Around the university quarter of 15th-century Paris, the advice they gave to students was “Never grow old in the arts”. Languages, history or philosophy might be fun to study, but you’d be better off ...

The Oxford comma. “Ask” instead of “aks.” There, their, and they’re. The legitimacy of “ain’t” and “y’all.” These are familiar, if sometimes contentious, issues in the usage of the English language.

Scientists have discovered that a language's grammatical structures change more quickly than vocabulary, overturning a long-held assumption in the field. The study analyzed 81 Austronesian languages ...

The older you get the more difficult it is to learn to speak French like a Parisian. But no one knows exactly what the cutoff point is—at what age it becomes harder, for instance, to pick up noun-verb ...