Post written by François Grosjean. - "I really should have kept up my Spanish"; - "I wish I could speak Chinese the way I used to as a child"; - "My German is going to pot". We have all heard ...

Ask him how it all began, and he remembers the ice. It was a bitter morning in January, 1982, when Bernard Cathomas, aged thirty-six, carefully picked his way up a slippery, sloping Zurich street. His ...

Learning a new language later in life can be a frustrating, almost paradoxical experience. On paper, our more mature and experienced adult brains should make learning easier, yet it is illiterate ...