Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whether someone's speech is a language or a dialect is a matter of both linguistics and politics ...

What does it mean to learn the Chinese language? Schools across the globe have generally presumed a consistent, straightforward answer to this question: it would mean learning standard Mandarin, ...

Adrian Brockless takes a look at the languae versus dialext debate and whehter the issue can be resolved so neatly.

The older you get the more difficult it is to learn to speak French like a Parisian. But no one knows exactly what the cutoff point is—at what age it becomes harder, for instance, to pick up noun-verb ...

My husband's late grandmother, who lived her entire life in the family's village in Zhejiang province, was known for her feisty sense of humor, her nimble hands that could knit beautiful hats and ...

A new resolution at the State Capitol is putting a spotlight on Appalachian culture and the way people speak throughout the ...

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rom the first rehearsal for the Maryland Renaissance Festival, Mary Ann Jung, the festival’s director of Renaissance history and Shakespearean language, has her fellow actors come up with a greeting ...