Beth Riehle was at the height of her career. At 35, living in Austin, she was working at an interior design boutique hotel, bartending and designing cocktails for their multimillion-dollar beverage ...

Many years ago, the son of a pastor I knew visited a tongues-speaking church out of curiosity. Members of the congregation would stand, supposedly speak in tongues, and immediately afterwards another ...

Some conversations are forgotten as soon as they are over, while other exchanges may leave lasting imprints. Researchers want to understand why and how listeners remember some spoken utterances more ...

How do you speak the language of love? In 1992, Gary Chapman wrote "The Five Love Languages" to help others understand the way humans give and receive love and to improve communication within ...

Growing up I remember I never used to care to know my mother tongue. Nobody ever talked to me in my mother tongue, other than went I went to upcountry 'shaggz' as we digitals call it. Speaking in ...

Joshua Bell, a curator at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, says that many people still consider monolingualism to be the norm. He and his team hope to dispel that myth ...

Although I now speak and think in English, my first words were not in this language. I was raised by a village of relatives; as a result, I grew up speaking in a patchwork of Cantonese, Mandarin and ...

On preserving the multi-lingua franca of Bengaluru Cities speak. Some in a single tongue, others in several. Bengaluru has ...

THE 7400 or so languages in use today speak to the fact that our species is primed to communicate. But while it is tempting to view language as merely a consequence of our extraordinary cognitive ...