In TikTok videos viewed tens of thousands of times, 31-year-old Dan Sheena dons a blond wig and acts out skits of a bickering ...

A WUWM listener asked why colleges in Milwaukee don't offer African languages as foreign languages. Marquette and UWM only ...

Linguists at Charles University are reconstructing how ancient languages sounded. I discussed the Voices of Dead Languages project with one of its initiators Jan Bičovský.

Winston Scott's twists and turns took him to the lush mountains of Guatemala, where he was introduced to the Maya people. Now ...

Home to some of the last speakers of Aramaic, Maaloula was attacked in Syria’s civil war. Its residents are determined to rebuild–and preserve their mother tongue from extinction.

The Hidatsa language is in a state of emergency. Only an estimated 65 people speak it fluently. But one instructor at United Tribes Technical College is working to change that and save her native ...

After multiple requests from tribal citizens about creating prayers in Okáxpa, Mary Jacobs and others from the Quapaw Nation’s language department took action. “It became an idea last fall because I ...

In Cornell's “Cayuga Language and Culture” course, students explore the history, culture and continuing presence of the Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀ community while learning the Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀ language, which the ...

Words travel. They cross rivers, climb hills, and change shape as people grow up in different places. Some countries hear many languages every day, but one country hears more than any other on Earth.

Krupa Padhy uncovers how we really learn foreign languages – in a dual challenge involving both Portuguese and Mandarin. There was a time when my oversized hardback Collins Roberts French dictionary ...