By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 24 (Reuters) - A small object called the Adorant figurine discovered in a cave in Germany in 1979 - crafted roughly 40,000 years ago by some of the earliest people to ...

In the dystopian world of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, the government of Oceania aims to achieve thought control through the restriction of language. As explained by the character Syme, a ...

Two researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles, who point out all the problems with the use of home-language surveys across the country as a first step for identifying English-language ...

In Spanish, “cariño,” “mi vida,” and “amor” are used similarly, as are terms like “habibi” in Arabic, “tesoro” and “amore” in Italian, “meu bem” in Portuguese, “mon cœur” in French, and so on.

Free language learning apps often promise the world — but don’t expect fluency from one. Here’s what to expect before you sign up. By Eric Ravenscraft If mobile language-learning apps are to be ...