There's an old joke among teachers and students of foreign languages that goes something like this: What do you call somebody who speaks three languages? Tri-lingual. What do you call somebody who ...

Most of us assume that learning another language is very difficult. You need special skills to remember both vocabulary and grammar rules and, at the same time, must be able to converse fluently with ...

Every day, Massachusetts seventh-grader Kaylyn Wilson takes a break from doing homework online and opens an app on her phone for a half-hour foreign language lesson. “The boy has three green bikes and ...

Generative AI tools can mimic real-life, foreign-language conversations at any time, which might be the key to language learning Corin Cesaric is a Flex Editor at CNET. She received her bachelor's ...

MacArthur High School seniors Alyssa Amatulli (front row left) and Hannah Kilmetis (front row right) taught Lee Road fifth-graders how to do the Tarantella. (Photo by Levittown Public Schools) ...

Experts say English slang and regional dialect should not be banned from classrooms but when you're getting to grips with a second language how helpful is it to learn non-standard lingo? Experts say ...

A first-of-its-kind national survey sought to examine the state of foreign language education in primary and secondary schools, but found a striking “lack of knowledge about foreign language teaching ...

Guten Morgen, the Philippines! German has found a home in the Philippines' public schools despite being a tough language to learn — even for some of the teachers.

A cheerful language lesson from an unexpected teacher has taken social media by storm, proving once again that simplicity travels far online. A foreign woman has gone viral after posting a ...

Sounds kind of like a tropical fungus, but as I discovered this week during the Design/Type/Color seminar here at Poynter, the language of the newsroom can come in some pretty funny dialects. Here are ...

BRATTLEBORO -- Elsa Borrero, coordinator of the foreign language program for the Windham Southeast elementary schools, has not yet taught her young students how to say "budget cuts" in Spanish. But if ...