Annie Murphy Paul is the author of the forthcoming book Brilliant: The New Science of Smart. Can an adult learn to speak a second language with the accent of a native? Not likely, but new research ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order declaring English as the nation's official language, but Native leaders dispute its reach. For many years, the federal government tried to erase Native ...

Classrooms at Unalaska City High School are usually empty on Friday evenings as students and staff headed off for the weekend. But on one winter Friday, things were different. A group of people ...

While waking up from knee surgery, a 17-year-old boy temporarily lost his ability to speak in his native language. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

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There are fewer than 100 speakers of the Arapaho language today — all of whom are above the age of 70. Researchers hope to ...

JEMEZ PUEBLO — From the 1800s to the 1960s, generations of Native American students suffered abuses in boarding schools run by the U.S. government that were designed to stamp out their cultural and ...

Linguists give the lowdown on whether it is possible to forget your native language. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A native ...

Can an adult learn to speak a second language with the accent of a native? Not likely, but new research suggests that we would make better progress, and be understood more easily by our conversational ...