Everhart is teaming up with librarians, faculty and students to hold the Festival of Languages and Dialects on April 11 to 12 at UMass Amherst ...

There has been a lot of research to back up the idea that people who use two or more languages everyday experience significant advantages. The brain training involved in having to use a different ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (L-R) Fiona Seah, Melissa Goh and Cherie Lim from NTU hope the My Father Tongue campaign will spur interest among younger ...

Linguists are always taken aback by the overwhelmingly negative and sometimes virulently expressed reaction they get when stating something that every linguist believes (and linguists do not agree on ...

On July 23, in a studio at Songjiang Radio Station, a 65-year-old Shanghai native, Zhou Yuanji, put on a pair of headphones and began to speak his mother tongue, Shanghai dialect. He began to sound ...