Peer-to-peer communication has always been a vital part of foreign language learning. People learn from each other just as much as they do from an instructor.

Italian cardinal Joseph Caspar Mezzofanti was said to have spoken more than 38 languages fluently at the time of his death in 1849, a skill that would have been imminently useful in today's ...

Learning A Second Language: Is It All In Your Head? Date: July 27, 2007 Source: Northwestern University Summary: Think you haven't got the aptitude to learn a foreign language?

A new study suggests that bilingualism can improve cognitive and social skills in children with autism. Multilingual children ...

English speakers who refuse to learn a second language because of how universal English has become are robbing themselves of an opportunity for development. While most airports have translations ...

As California expands transitional kindergarten, English learner advocates are urging school districts to prioritize children learning English as a second language. California is expanding ...

A FEW YEARS AGO, Captain Emmanuel Joseph decided to learn Arabic before his deployment to Iraq. “At first it was easy,” he told me. At his base in the U.S., he explains, “we had native ...

For most native English-speakers, learning the Mandarin Chinese language from scratch is no easy task. Learning it in a class that essentially compresses a one-semester college course into a single ...

Scientists Pinpoint Best Age to Learn a Second Language. Published May 01, 2018 at 1:49 PM EDT Updated May 02, 2018 at 6:11 AM EDT. By . Kashmira Gander is Deputy Science Editor at Newsweek.