One of the most amazing phenomena in young children learning a language is how well and how fast they learn new words. There comes a time in their development when we, adults, can hardly keep up with ...

Sentences contain subtle hints in their grammar that tell young children about the meaning of new words, according to new research. As young children, how do we build our vocabulary? Even by age 1, ...

Krupa Padhy uncovers how we really learn foreign languages – in a dual challenge involving both Portuguese and Mandarin.

If you've ever had to spell out words like W-A-L-K or T-R-E-A-T around a dog, you know that some dogs listen in to humans' chitchat and can pick out certain key words. Well, it turns out that some ...

Kateřina Chládková has received external funding from the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Science Foundation, and the Czech Ministry of Education. She consults for and co-develops the Mooveez ...

Crossplay challenges you to expand your word choices. So how exactly do you do that? By Julia Carpenter Almost every day for the last 24 years, my father and I have traded emails about ...