More and more phones, televisions, smart speakers, and cars are embedded with automated speech-recognition technologies that ...

NPR's Eyder Peralta speaks with Esteban Touma, language expert from the app Babbel about 2025's most mispronounced words.

John Cena discusses with Joe Rogan the 2021 incident where he called Taiwan a country, prompting an apology to China that ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a ...

In a world where names and places often challenge our linguistic skills, the recent news cycle has brought forth two significant entries into the list of the most difficult words to pronounce in 2025: ...

Linguistics develops analytical thinking and problem-solving, communication skills that are useful in virtually any profession,” Calafate said. “It provides students with a toolkit to work in fields ...

Ambiguous speech production is a common challenge for learners of a second language (L2), but identifying whether the problem ...

Ian Devaney, frontman of Nation of Language, thought about the push and pull of emotion in electronic music when working on ...

If Danish speakers experience hygge, then they should have a word to talk about it; if English speakers don’t, then we won’t.

It is a bright cold day in Reykjavik, sun streaming through her dormer window, when Ólöf Arnalds proclaims: “I am the ...

Join the UAE's historic moment on December 2, when residents across all emirates unite to sing the national anthem at 11 AM, ...

It seems Irish names were the biggest tongue twisters for most people, with three names making the list. Niamh was the most ...