Learn the simple English trick of the day to never confuse 'a' vs 'an' again – easy rule that works 100% of the time, even ...

Choosing a baby name is basically the first high-stakes decision you make as a parent, right? It’s tough! But experts are ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

Very few people get to invent a new language that is heard by millions: DW talked to linguist Paul Frommer about how he ...

Proven methods for teaching the readers who struggle most have been known for decades. Why do we often fail to use them?

Choosing a name is often a moment charged with emotion and meaning. What if the beauty of a name could be scientifically measured? A surprising study conducted by a British linguist claims that a name ...

English is a trap. It’s a language built on theft, borrowing words from German, French, and Latin, shaking them up in a bag, ...

Learning to read, unlike speaking, walking, or understanding the world around us, is not something humans do naturally.

There is a particularly interesting phenomenon that shows how the human brain tends to systematically associate sounds and shapes: the ...

This study presents a valuable advance in reconstructing naturalistic speech from intracranial ECoG data using a dual-pathway model. The evidence supporting the claims of the authors is solid, ...

Welcome to Banglish, the intuitive Chrome extension that transforms your English phonetic input into Bengali script seamlessly. This extension is built for those who love to communicate in Bengali but ...