Here are the biggest linguistics, language and culture stories from the past 12…
The supreme effectiveness of sign language, the politeness of Canadian tweets…
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.
The problem with voice assistants, a Starbucks for users of sign-language and more from the world of language this past month.
By Thomas Devlin
The death of Koko the sign-language gorilla, stories about language at the World Cup and more from the world of linguistics.
One linguist is using a bit of cheeky shock value to promote multilingualism in the U.K.
The future of English, later-in-life language fluency and more in this edition of Babbel On.
By Thomas Moore Devlin
This month: what to do when ‘plenty of fish’ doesn’t apply to your sea. Also, what’s the point of language (or anything at all, really)?