Dr John P. Hopkins from St Martin’s University in Washington is to speak at this year’s Féile an Phobail ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As Native language programs flourish in classrooms, Indian centers, tribal meeting rooms and online, President Donald Trump issued ...

Does learning a new language have to come at the cost of your native language? One common phenomenon in English-speaking countries is the loss of mother languages over the course of a few generations.

I once dismissed the idea of learning Dutch. Now it's the primary language I use when speaking to my son.

Olga Kerameos ’27, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a Social Studies concentrator in Mather House. I find myself using phrases like “lowkey” and “it’s not that deep” that just years ago were totally ...

As the Miami and Lenape peoples are rebuilding their languages, they're gaining a better understanding of how their ancestors saw the world.

When Native students are exposed to their cultural languages, their sense of well-being improves and they’re more likely to graduate, studies show. Similarly, culturally responsive teaching and ...

A new study of people who speak many languages has found that there is something special about how the brain processes their native language. In the brains of these polyglots—people who speak five or ...

In this article, we will look at the 25 most spoken native languages in the world. We will also be discussing an overview of the language-learning market. If you want to skip our detailed analysis, ...

One of the oldest questions in the history of psychology is about how language influences the mind. Does the language we use impact how we see the world? We know that many of our mental processes are ...

MEMORY IS UNFAITHFUL. As William James, a pioneering psychologist of the 19th and early 20th centuries, observed: “There is no such thing as mental retention, the persistence of an idea from month to ...