Bilingualism

As children learn more about the world through the people around them, the diversity in languages presents them with a unique opportunity for better social-cognitive learning. Past research has shown that children who grew up bilingual have…

Speaking two languages provides the enviable ability to make friends in unusual places. A new study suggests that bilingualism may also come with another benefit: improved memory in later life.Studying hundreds of older patients,…

Air Canada's chief executive has apologized to a parliamentary committee in his first comments since his poor grasp of the French language sparked a huge outcry last fall. "I am sorry. I apologize again here," Michael Rousseau said in…

The brain uses a shared mechanism for combining words from a single language and for combining words from two different languages, a team of neuroscientists has discovered. Its findings indicate that language switching is natural for those…