Annie Murphy Paul is the author of the forthcoming book Brilliant: The New Science of Smart. Can an adult learn to speak a second language with the accent of a native? Not likely, but new research ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order declaring English as the nation's official language, but Native leaders dispute its reach. For many years, the federal government tried to erase Native ...

In this article, we will look at the 25 most spoken native languages in the world. We will also be discussing an overview of the language-learning market. If you want to skip our detailed analysis, ...

Can an adult learn to speak a second language with the accent of a native? Not likely, but new research suggests that we would make better progress, and be understood more easily by our conversational ...

I was hired at the University of Colorado Boulder in 1995 as a language professor. I relocated from Hawaii, where I had learned the Hawaiian language. When I arrived in Colorado, I decided I needed to ...