Heat waves and scant rainfall in Europe have contributed to historic wildfires in France and Spain that have forced hundreds ...

Globally, people currently use roughly 7,500 languages, with English, Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, Arabic and French the most common, counting native and nonnative speakers. That ​is a lot of ...

Peter P-Square defends his children speaking French, sparking debate on Nigerian languages and cultural identity. Read his ...

Worldview: Language competence is now just as much part of Ireland’s competitive infrastructure deficit as poor planning ...

Firefighters are tackling fresh blazes while others have been contained, and hundreds of thousands of people have been forced ...

TIME spoke with Luis von Ahn about Duolingo’s story, user engagement, and how he’s approaching AI integration.

For a country that's never needed -- and often looked down on -- air conditioning, this has been a summer of reckoning. As France suffers through successive extreme heatwaves, AC has become a ...

Researchers think humans may have spoken as many as 20,000 to 75,000 different languages during a period they’ve dubbed the ...

Canada has explained the ways foreigners can prove their language skills while applying for citizenship. The conditions were ...

Canada has explained the conditions foreign spouses of Canadian citizens must meet to apply for citizenship. Learn the ...

French theory, as taught in American classrooms, has acquired a reputation of forbidding difficulty and hauteur. A new ...