Experts say English slang and regional dialect should not be banned from classrooms but when you're getting to grips with a second language how helpful is it to learn non-standard lingo? Experts say ...

Linguistic diversity on Earth is far more profound and fundamental than previously imagined. But it’s also crumbling fast At the heart of linguistics is a radical premise: all languages are equal.

Post written by François Grosjean. In an earlier post on language forgetting, I mentioned a little American boy, Stephen, who had acquired Garo in India during his first years of life but who had ...