I am often asked why English is such a difficult to learn for non-native speakers. In fact, how hard it is to learn depends on what your native language is; and this follows as languages are more (or ...

There are currently ∼7,000 different living human languages. The peak of language diversity may have been ∼10,000 years ago when up to 20,000 different languages might have been spoken. Languages ...

It is widely believed that language is structured around ‘constituents’, units that combine hierarchically. Using structural priming, we provide evidence of linguistic structures — non-constituents — ...

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 ...

This Rule Breaker Investing Mailbag picks up where Pet Peeves left off. Listeners wrote in with their own linguistic ...

The U.S. president and Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei turned a meme war into an actual war. Only one of them came out alive.

It might be your fault, or the fault of the pavement, or the fault of your shoes, but it almost certainly has nothing to do with your husband, and the odds are he is wearing sensible shoes. Carrie ...

The leaders driving innovation and adoption of artificial intelligence tools within the marketing and advertising industry.

“I hate networking.” We hear this all the time from executives, other professionals, and MBA students. They tell us that networking makes them feel uncomfortable and phony—even dirty. Although some ...

Our museums, education, and research centers work at intersections that spark imagination and encourage discovery—between art and the environment, space exploration and women’s history, cultural ...

I made a summary of The Correspondent to remind you of the plot, characters, and important moments in the book for your next book club.