Is sign language more efficient than spoken language?

Ask Babs: I Corrected My Friend’s Pronunciation At Dinner, And Now He’s Mad. How Does One Keep It Classy In These Situations?

This month: walking the fine line between ‘smug jerk’ and ‘enabler of bad pronunciation.’ Also, a married person…

Google Translate addresses its bias issue

This past week, Google unveiled a redesign of its very popular Translate service. The…

Koko the sign-language gorilla dies at 46. What did she teach us?

Koko’s life fundamentally shifted how humans understand both animals and language.

By Thomas Devlin

How we reinvented Russian for Pride

Heteronormativity is baked into the Russian language. Here’s how we reimagined Russian to make…

I used Babbel to brush up on my native language

Russian is technically my first language, but you wouldn’t know it from listening to me speak. I used Babbel to jog my memory before my first trip to the motherland.

Babbel On: November 2018 Language News Roundup

Tourism in Iceland, the language of the environment and more news from the…

Is monolingualism a disease?

One linguist is using a bit of cheeky shock value to promote multilingualism in the U.K.

The Google Assistant is now bilingual

By Thomas Devlin

The National Museum Of Brazil Fire and the precariousness of language records

By Thomas Devlin