Learning a new language can be a fun yet frustrating endeavor. Like any new skill, consistency is key. As much as we might want to, we can’t all pick up and move to France for six months to become ...

We all know artificial intelligence (AI) is hitting the education field at a rapid pace. Many different companies are trying to corner this market. In my work as an elementary educator specializing in ...

The Microsoft Copilot Usage Report 2025 provides fresh insight into how people use generative AI in practice and highlights Language Learning and Translation as one of Copilot’s top use cases. The ...

Language models are statistical techniques for learning a probability distribution over linguistic data by observing samples of language use and encoding their observed presence in a large number of ...

Recently when testing out Gemini’s ability to recognize different accents and languages, I realized that the AI tool’s Live mode actually understands my second language: Afrikaans. This lead to me ...

Abstract: This paper introduces G-SQL, a schema-aware and rule-guided framework for translating Natural Language Queries (NLQ) into SQL, designed to support users with limited technical expertise.

Summary: For decades, scholars believed children’s speech errors were the seeds of language change, but new research challenges that view. The study argues that everyday language use among adolescents ...

Choosing between Microsoft Dataverse and Microsoft SQL Server resulted in us having to decide between two good options. Microsoft Digital stories Editor’s note: This story was created with the help of ...

We’re excited to announce a new migration capability in Azure Arc to simplify and accelerate SQL Server migration. This new capability, now generally available, is powered by Azure Database Migration ...

The world is full of the sounds of animals communicating with each other: birds singing, crickets chirping, whales singing songs in the deep. Until now, other than in children’s books, animal language ...

In June, I’m excited to visit Germany, Austria, and Switzerland for the first time as a chaperone for my daughter’s class trip. This trip has been in the making for nearly two years, and to get ready, ...