As the summer holidays begin in Australia, parents may feel concerned their children will "forget how to spell their own ...

Chandler acknowledges that little or non-existent spelling instruction puts children with an existing or emerging learning ...

My weekly language classes have taught me humility more than anything else. Ayaka Ono, my current Japanese teacher, estimates ...

The belief that children learn languages faster than adults is nearly universal — and largely wrong. Linguistic studies ...

The folks at the Humboldt Literacy Project estimate that some 14,000 of our neighbors in Humboldt are functionally illiterate. That means they would struggle to fill out a form or understand ...

Men suffer not because they are ill treated by women, changing mores or a changing economy. The real damage Vincent documents ...

"So far, both his first and second grade teachers have danced around the issue when reporting bad days to us. Rather than ...

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Zola had a brain that bounced like a ball, full of colours, dreams, and ideas tall….” So begins The Magic in My Mind, a book ...

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Preply listed nine other words that ranked as the hardest in 2025. (It looks like Aug. 13-14 was a particularly stressful period for puzzlers.) Here's a look at the top 10. EDIFY -- which means to ...