Contrary to conventional thinking, it's never too late to learn a new language. Use these tips to get started. For more than two years, Dulcie Shoener of Milwaukee has done daily German lessons on her ...

Multilingual people, it turns out, tended to have younger “biobehavioral” ages than monolinguals. They’re 2.17 times less likely to show signs of accelerated aging, even after accounting for education ...

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A vast study suggests that being multilingual can slow down cognitive ageing. Speaking multiple languages could slow down ...

All children are born with the same kind of brain wiring, so at the outset, we are all equally adept at learning any possible human language. For a newborn, any language is, in principle, as easy or ...

July 2 (UPI) --Children are remarkably efficient language learners -- they absorb new words, sentence structures and syntax much faster than teenagers and adults. But why? While most studies probing ...

For years, scientists have gathered evidence that learning and speaking multiple languages changes the brain. But a new study ...

Learning a language can’t be that hard — every baby in the world manages to do it in a few years. Figuring out how the process works is another story. Linguists have devised elaborate theories to ...

Amanda Seidl (standing), a Purdue associate professor of speech, language and hearing sciences who studies language acquisition, found that touch can influence how infants learn language. Her research ...