There are many simple words in the English language that are hard for foreign speakers to master. That's because English words often have several different meanings and can be difficult to pronounce.

Every infant is a natural-born linguist capable of mastering any of the world's 7,000 languages like a native An infant child possesses an amazing, and fleeting, gift: the ability to master a language ...

Recent research indicates that toddlers can monitor others' conversations, raising the possibility that they can acquire vocabulary in this way. Three studies examined 2-year-olds' (N = 88) ability to ...

The AI program was way less cute than a real baby. But like a baby, it learned its first words by seeing objects and hearing words. Some ideas of language learning hold that humans are born with ...

Could you learn to speak 1,000 words from another language? British people are lazy linguists – they don't tend to learn foreign languages. A campaign is now encouraging everyone in the UK to learn at ...