In our ASL translation, Jacob, who was hairless and smooth-skinned, has a name sign that can be back-translated literally to English as “smooth arm skin,” whereas his twin, Esau, who was notoriously ...

Born Max van Gelder to a Jewish family in Amsterdam in 1916, Geldray was a pioneering jazz harmonica player.

as opposed to the subject-verb-object order used in English. Nine other difficult languages are: Mandarin Chinese, which has thousands of characters, tonal pronunciation and no alphabetic script.

I like to think of myself as a logical person, but as I dig into the English language, I find that much of our language is nonsense. English is a ...

I’m from Oklahoma, the state which had the best state song until Ray Charles’ “Georgia” became The Peach State’s official song in 1979. As a native Okie, I’m proud to ...

English teacher at Ripon Grammar School, Emma Sayers, first established a reading club for children from forces families in January last year.

From struggling with English to hosting the SBS Learn English podcast, Josipa Kosanovic shares the challenges of adapting to ...

Beth So, if you buy some chicken, it means parts of chicken, like maybe chicken legs or chicken breasts. Whereas if you say a ...

Learning a new language can be challenging, but recent research suggests that sleep could play a crucial role in this process ...

An international team of researchers, including scientists from the HSE Centre for Language and Brain, has identified the causes of impairments in expressing grammatical tense in people with aphasia.

Sarah Brownsword, the educator behind the question, put the debate down to the fact that "people love to talk about and argue ...