There's a common assumption that if someone starts learning a language when they are very young, they will quickly become ...

Readers respond to an article by Gary Nunn who says learning Spanish has never been cooler Gary Nunn misses the point of language learning in seeing it as a numbers game (Spanish is clearly now the ...

Initially inspired by anime and manga, Wang enrolled in first-year Japanese. In the two years since, though, her path to fluency has been far from straightforward.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

If you’ve ever wanted to learn a language, finding a website to learn through can be a daunting task. Most websites make you sign up or want your credit card details for payment, but there is one site ...

Sleep is critical for all sorts of reasons, but a team of international scientists has discovered a new incentive for getting eight hours of sleep every night: it helps the brain to store and learn a ...

As Bad Bunny showed at the Super Bowl, español is the coming thing. No wonder it’s now the top GCSE language choice “Now, Gary, repeat after me: Quiero una margarita, por favor,” my Spanish tutor ...

Parents often hear the warning: “If your child doesn’t learn a second language early, they’ll never be fluent.” Adults, meanwhile, are told: “It’s just too late for you to learn now.” These claims are ...

Share on Pinterest Keeping the brain active throughout life by reading, learning languages is tied to lower Alzheimer’s risk. Image credit: Burak Karademir/Getty Images About 32 million people ...

"Are we going to keep requiring language proficiency for our teams handling international claims?" wondered Nicolas Llorens, head of human resources at Macif, the French insurance company. "I need to ...

We often treat learning as something that can be accessed with enough motivation and discipline. But learning depends on something more basic: whether the nervous system is in a state that allows for ...

How we learn to predict an outcome isn’t determined by how many times a cue and reward happen together. Instead, how much ...