It's a lesson that many language learners have learned the hard way: While the words of a familiar language are distinct, the words of an unfamiliar one are often tricky to tease apart, blurring ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. When we talked about “bizarro” words last week, we promised to talk this week about the difference between “colloquial ...

Gaining literacy in a familiar language is more efficient; English can then be learnt afterwards. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) issued a directive on 22 May. A few newspaper ...

‘Language is power, power to communicate, express your ideas, and be a part of society,’ said Claudette Vigueras, a migrant from Mexico, during the opening of a conference on ‘Informal language ...

We live in a sea of constant sounds and noises. Some are meaningful and some are not. However, it seems as though we have a remarkable ability to discriminate human speech from all of those other ...