Indigenous teachers pass on their native language at Michigan State University as a way to resist cultural displacement ...

Language forms the backbone of communal existence. It doesn't take long to discover this if you've ever traveled to a place where you don't speak the language. "Where is the nearest bathroom?", "How ...

My job at BYU is… I teach linguistics, which is the humanistic and scientific study of language, in all of its variety. I’m currently working on... so many projects, but the newest one is a ...

In the internet age, when we face a language barrier, there are a host of internet resources to solve it: things like translation apps, dictionary websites, versions of Wikipedia in other languages, ...

Today we’re doing “guess the spoken language” challenge, where I try to guess what language is being spoken. As a polyglot I have studied dozens of languages, perhaps as many as 50, which has given me ...