Learning a new foreign language is never easy – but it's a lot harder if you fall into these five common traps, says Anne Merritt. By Anne Merritt 19 December 2012 • 7:00am Language learning: learning ...

Learning a foreign language can give your career a boost – but that doesn't mean it has to cost you. Anne Merritt outlines the five best ways to pick up a language for free. By Anne Merritt 20 ...

Even a little knowledge of the language can make a difference in attitude when you meet people from other countries. Speaking another language helps to break down barriers. Work and business It can ...

When it comes to learning a foreign language, we tend to think that children are the most adept. But that may not be the case – and there are added benefits to starting as an adult. It’s a busy autumn ...

Many of us have entertained the idea of expanding our horizons. Learning a foreign language is an obvious option. It’s one that I would personally endorse: My individual circumstances were such that, ...

Every day for about five years, Israeli sisters Reut and Shoham Nistel ran home from school, made themselves sandwiches and plopped down on the couch to watch an Argentine telenovela with Hebrew ...

With the improvements in online translation applications and the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) in this technology era zeitgeist, I’ve been asking myself a rather unusual question lately: Is ...

English may be the global language, but mastering a foreign tongue can benefit business and employees. But how should staff be encouraged to do this? Foreign language skills are, increasingly, a ...

Subliminal learning in your sleep is usually dismissed as pseudo-science at best and fraud at worst, but a team of Swiss psychologists say you can actually learn a foreign language in your sleep. Well ...

Learning a foreign language should be made compulsory in primary schools here, a new report has said. In Northern Ireland, learning a second language is not a statutory part of the primary school ...