Growing up in the bilingual city of Kyiv in the 1990s, I studied the Ukrainian language like a museum object—intensely, but at a distance, never quite feeling all of its textures or bringing it home.

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 ...

This video captures conversations where speaking someone’s native language unexpectedly changes the tone of the interaction.

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 ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- A new study of people who speak many languages has found that there is something special about how the brain processes their native language. In the brains of these polyglots — people ...