Across Europe, North America, and beyond, many learners are heritage speakers or descendants of Arabic-speaking families. Their motivation is deeply personal: connecting with grandparents, ...

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 ...

The way you talk says something about where you were raised. Turns out, the same appears to be true for bats. Researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel found that Egyptian fruit bats (Rousettus ...

Research has shown that local dialects play an important role in self, in-group, and cultural identity. But can they also impact our interaction with robots? This question is particularly relevant for ...

A new campaign to promote dialect usage among younger Singaporeans is off to a good start with 16 free classes conducted in Hokkien, Cantonese and Teochew fully booked since their opening last month.

Sperm whales communicate by making very loud clicks—which are actually the loudest noises produced by any animal—in a certain pattern, not unlike Morse code. But the cadence they use to talk among ...

People searching for honey in Mozambique work with birds via a shared language in a rare case of cooperation between humans ...