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In a joint research project with EF Education First and the University of Tokyo, it was revealed for the first time that significant changes in brain ...
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There is a lot of received wisdom about learning a foreign language: That you have to start young, that older learners struggle and that there is a li...
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Almost everyone can name one language they want to learn – Japanese is on my bucket list. But almost everyone has myriad excuses why they are not yet ...
For those of us hailing from an English-speaking country, we are blessed to have learned English from birth. We don’t have to join the over 1 billion ...
There are over 6900 distinct languages in the world today, but which ones are the most beautiful of them all? Depending on your mother tongue, the lan...
Language skills can be the career gift that keeps on giving: Being able to speak, explain, and negotiate in another language makes you more employable...
