Tatsuya Amano knows how daunting it is to be surrounded by people speaking a foreign language in your workplace. The conservation scientist left his native Japan in 2011 to work in the UK and then ...

English — with its hybrid history, its “sun never sets” empire, its American melting pot — just happens to be particularly ...

I'm 20 years old. I used to learn French from about the age of ten. I loved it. But I began to realise the language was dying whilst I was learning it:'le hamburger, le joke, le fun, le businessman, ...

Languages are not only communication tools, but in their diversity and ethnicity they are also integral parts of world culture. Communication and development policies which are not based on respect ...

Languages evolve and change drastically over time. If you were to say street corn, nepo baby, or beach read — three terms recently added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary — to early English speakers, ...

Are the Dutch now native speakers of English, and is Dutch-English a distinctive thing? Deborah Nicholls-Lee meets linguistics expert Alison Edwards to find some answers. English is no longer a ...

For Simon König (name changed), buying a pair of glasses from an optician in Zurich's city center proved to be an unexpected challenge. The sales staffers, he found, didn't speak a word of German.

“Official” is a very English word. It has its roots in the Old French “oficial” and the Latin “officialis,” and now — thanks to a new Trump executive order — describes the status of the English ...

Parliamentary rule that only English is allowed has reignited debate about language, legitimacy and postcolonial identity ...

English tutor and TikTok user share some of the most difficult words for non native speaking speakers to pronounce.