Discover the easiest languages for English speakers to learn—by region—including ASL, Latin, and global picks from Europe to Africa.

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This fall, I am not only teaching in Paris but temporarily directing a program of study abroad. Among the many other changes this shift has produced in my daily life, I find myself no longer on the ...

In May, I asked how teachers can address frequent student grammatical mistakes. The response to that post generated a number of great suggestions. But no response went so far as musician-comedian ...

It’s a peculiar observation that the more people speak a language, the simpler its grammar tends to be. English and Mandarin, for instance, have notably straightforward structures. On the other hand, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Is living in a language-rich world enough to teach a child grammatical language? kate_sept2004/E+ via Getty Images Unlike the ...

Willem Hollmann is affiliated with the Committee for Linguistics in Education (CLiE) and with the Education Committee of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB). Do you know what a suffix ...

The idea that we have brains hardwired with a mental template for learning grammar—famously espoused by Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—has dominated linguistics for almost ...