Teaching English may well be the 21st century’s most promising way to take the Good News to the world “For it is by grace you have been saved,” I repeated after the missionary who was my ...

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1. Frame the next clip from The Human Spark by explaining that it follows host Alan Alda as he speaks with Harvard University professor Elizabeth Spelke about what she thinks might constitute “the ...

Free language learning apps often promise the world — but don’t expect fluency from one. Here’s what to expect before you sign up. By Eric Ravenscraft If mobile language-learning apps are to be ...

Having taught for nearly a decade, I’ve worked through my share of classroom challenges. Nothing, however, prepared me for the toughest one: teaching my own children to speak Russian, my native ...

Most of us assume that learning another language is very difficult. You need special skills to remember both vocabulary and grammar rules and, at the same time, must be able to converse fluently with ...

Children from poorer backgrounds in England are increasingly likely to miss out on learning a foreign language, suggests a report. Some teachers blame new tougher GCSEs for putting lower ability ...

An Ojibway language teacher and author is hoping that anyone who can speak an Indigenous language can use her new book to teach others. "It could be used by any group at all — Ojibway, Cree, Dene, ...

An old Chinese proverb sums up the three months I spent studying Mandarin in Beijing: To suffer and learn, one pays a high price, but a fool can’t learn any other way. The famously difficult Chinese ...

Duolingo, the language learning app, apologized in an X post for calling author JK Rowling "mean" in a German lesson. Rating: True (About this rating?) In August 2025, a rumor spread online that the ...