The sci-fi of another language

When an American says ‘sure’ to a Brit, does it mean yes or no?

This poetry detective tracks down word thieves. But are they all plagiarists?

Will blind people use Braille in the future?

How soccer became multilingual

This is your brain on improv

How the Basque language has survived

The hardest question for a third culture kid: Where is home?

Russian-speaking New Yorker would rather her daughter learn Chinese

If you could talk to the animals

Why we are so drawn to the letter ‘X’

The three-letter word that rocked a nation

A British ‘Mx.’ tape

The secretive language of professional wrestling

Where does language come from?

The correspondence of Jean Sibelius and his wife Aino is a bilingual love story

Why you’ll find people named Lenin, Stalin and Krushchev on the roads of Kerala, India

Why people are still trying to ‘lose’ their accents

Words to live by in 2017

My voice is my passport — verify me

Who gets to decide what ‘assimilation’ means?

Jennifer Kronovet studied Yiddish so she could communicate with the dead

This is a story about the origins of Antifa

Is there an art to dubbing movies and TV? Yes, and Germans have mastered it.

How to speak like an aliebn — no, that’s not a typo

One simple word defines Germans, but Germans don’t agree on what it means

Deciphering the lingo of pro-Trump trolls

In the former East Germany, Frank Zappa lives on as a beacon of freedom

Cracking open a case of fortune cookie theft

Grandmothers have the best curse words

Dialect versus language — what’s the big deal?

The Putinization of Donald Trump

Is this remote Siberian language an ancestor to Navajo?

In Moldova, speaking the wrong language once had serious consequences

Which version of Indian history do American school students learn?

Language versus dialect, or why we’re obsessed with Elena Ferrante

‘What a total God shot!’ Understand that? Then you speak Christianese.

Arabic has a Jewish dialect, and these women speak it

Why the English word ‘black’ became the new ‘noir’ in France

2017 feels almost as strange as this writer’s dystopian vision of Iraq in 2103

American soft power has helped this Kenyan man’s efforts to ensure a future for his mother tongue

Translating Trump — literally

The first cousin of the English language is alive and well in the Netherlands

How an ancient word about a bird became a slur used by white supremacists

How the Swahili language took hold across Africa, and beyond

The Standing Rock Sioux are also fighting for their language

‘I’m Arab but I don’t speak Arabic’

Why a hospital is taking farm workers out of the field and training them as medical interpreters

Should kids be learning in more than one language? Californians just decided “yes.”

How do you revive a language if tribal elders don’t want you to?

Born in Canada, they sing in the Russian dialect of their grandparents

Some people are ashamed of Spanish in Miami. Wait, what?

What it’s like to learn a second language when you can’t read and write in your first

How the Miami Tribe got its language back

Netflix figured out how to translate a talk show into 20 languages in just 24 hours

Sing to me in Vietnamese: A daughter learns the language of her refugee parents through song

A new generation of Canadians are learning this language, and not all of them are tribal members

A new generation of Canadians are learning this language, and not all of them are tribal members

Introducing myself as ‘they/them/their’ at my workplace

Meet the last native speakers of Hawaiian