For 140 years, scientists' understanding of language comprehension in the brain came from individuals with stroke. But now they have redrawn that brain map based on new research with individuals who ...

There was once a linguistic landscape of incredible diversity in North America. While the continent of Europe has three main language families—Romance, Germanic, and Slavic—Native American languages ...

Maps of the world are typically written with the language of the viewer in mind. But the zoomable Endonym Map takes a different approach, writing each country’s name in one of that country’s own ...

What do you call a carbonated beverage? What do you call athletic shoes? Even the names of familiar things vary depending on ...

What language would you most like to be able to speak? Your answer to that probably depends on a lot of different factors, many of them unique to you. Perhaps you’d like to speak the language that is ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

If you want to pick up a new language in a short amount of time, you may want to start with Portuguese instead of Korean. According to the Foreign Service Institute (FSI), a native English speaker ...