This article investigates whether English has words that encapsulate a single idea, rather than explaining it in several words. In other languages, such as Swedish or Norwegian, one single word can...
This article is on the decline of the Irish language and the efforts that were made to revive it and how effective they were.
Many people say that the most successful communicators have the ability to do both talk and text, but some fear that more people are losing the ability to have or avoiding face to face conversation...
I thought this was an interesting story about bilingualism and how kids are finding it more popular and a lot of them are learning chinese as a second laguage.
I came across a site that has the general disorders of communication, such as autism and speaking disorders along with brief info about them. Quite interesting~
http://healthysleep.med.harvard.edu/healthy/matters/benefits-of-sleep/learning-memory There are 3 stages of learning: acquisition, consolidation, and recollection. Acquisition and recollection occ...
Although there are thousands of different languages in the world, english is one the most prominent languages in the world. The asian continent may have more native languages than the rest of the ...
http://www.cracked.com/article_20744_5-surprising-ways-your-language-affects-how-you-think.html is the full article. It enumerates 5 ways language can affect thinking: examine each section for the...
By analyzing the patterns of mistakes that native speakers of two languages make in English, computers can discern whether two languages might actually be related to one another, as the structures ...
started by nagbayani16 on 31 Mar 15
1 follow-up, last by Lara Cowell on 01 Apr 15
Learning a new language used to mean having to sit down with a book or attend a class, or if you were technologically advanced, listen to a language tape. Learning a new language now, however, is m...
Great article about raising a bilingual child and the decision to do so.
An academic at Cambridge taught himself to speak ancient Babylonian and has started a campaign to revive the language 2,000 years after it died out. Dr. Worthington has been teaching himself the la...
As an athlete we try to find ways to focus in on big moments and key plays. But with that comes a lot of pressure. I found an article that talks about positive self talk which allows athletes to re...
This article provides an analysis of the way children's brains develop depending on how their parents conversate with them. The article talks about the importance of having quality conversations wi...
This article talks about the theory from John Gray's book, Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, that men and women fundamentally differ in the way in which they use language to communicate. It ...
This article highlights the importance of how persuasion can benefit you in several aspects of your life, but specifically, the workplace. When using persuasive language, there are three main types...
http://www.sci-news.com/othersciences/linguistics/literature-women-men-07558.html
How Auto Correct works and how our society may be relying on it too much.
