One might say the results are muito fixe.

Vietnamese, for example, was one of the lowest-ranked languages for speed, but each syllable encoded a lot of information. Vietnamese speakers needed to utter fewer syllables to get their point across ...

Last April, the University of Southern California announced plans to eliminate its German department, stating that it wanted to shift resources away from European languages to Asian languages like ...

Rapid technological and scientific advances have fueled a huge wave of innovation over the past decades. The speed of global innovation is known to be dependent on the exchange of knowledge and skills ...

In an era of dwindling budgets, universities have identified language programs as an area for possible cuts. Languages with few students are being framed as luxuries that cannot be afforded during a ...

Romanian students study some of the highest numbers of foreign languages in school across the European Union, yet young ...

At Connecticut College, students explore intercultural communication skills as an integral part of liberal learning. All students are expected to study another language for at least two semesters; ...