There’s an age-old myth that says full-grown adults can’t become fluent in a second language. And lately, the media has been pointing to a new study that seems to suggest as much, saying that the ...

A Utah father says he repeatedly woke from surgery speaking fluent Spanish despite only basic prior knowledge. Stephen Chase ...

Centennial Hall echoed Tuesday with the sound of centuries-old languages. The first-ever Voices of Our Ancestors language summit brought together dozens of speakers fluent in Lingít, Xaad Kíl and ...

It doesn’t seem fair. You struggle for years trying to learn a new language while a child can come back from a summer in another country having completely mastered it. Children are built for language ...

Monika Schmid receives funding from the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and the ESRC. For one thing, the words “fluency” or “fluent” never even appear in the original study, published ...

Learning a foreign language isn’t exactly a royal rule, but it is highly encouraged, given how much they travel and meet with world leaders. In the royal family, greeting a president, prime minister, ...