Language

Should we still learn foreign languages? - opinion

Artificial intelligence is quietly challenging one of education’s oldest assumptions. For thousands of years, if you wanted to understand other people, you had to learn their language.

Children at Beersheba’s Hagar bilingual school read together
The children who received the real treatment presented an improvement in their communication and language abilitie

The treatment that caused autistic children to start talking

Google Translate. Now also pronunciation.

Finally: Gemini’s new feature brings it back into the game

 MEMBERS OF the Iranian diaspora in Europe take part in a rally in Brussels last September, marking the first anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini.

Iranian-Americans could strengthen US strategy against Iran - opinion


Can artificial intelligence predict what's going to happen in your life?

Protecting sensitive data, preserving privacy, and addressing biases in the data are challenges that must be tackled before models like this can be deployed.

 WORKS  BY Eliran Jan, Karen Knorr and Pavel Wolberg are part of ‘The Language of the Liminal’ at the Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art.

My Word: A time, a place, and a word for it

I don’t seem to have lived my year on the same page as the Oxford wordsmiths, and perhaps we live in a parallel universe.

 THE POST-OCTOBER 7 ‘word of the year’ is ‘Together we will win.’

Boost your vocabulary throughout your life – not just in school – to become a better reader

Vocabulary is something you have to work on your whole life, stressed Sigmundsson. “We have to work on our vocabulary from birth, throughout our school years, and really our whole lives.”

 Books that have been donated to the "Read with Love Book Drive" run by PFLAG Bucks County to help place LGBTQ+ books in Bucks and Montgomery County libraries are placed in a donation box at the Doylestown Bookshop in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, U.S., April 7, 2023.

The history of war idioms and expressions

Let’s take a look at some idioms related to battle and see what they mean and how they originated. 

 An illustration by Gregory Zaboly depicting William B. Travis drawing a line in the sand.

'Dee Inglish Revolooshon': Changing the spelling of the English language - review

A new book describes a revolution in the English language, changing it for sound-based spelling.

The Union Jack, the flag of the United Kingdom.

Oxford University Press announces Word of the Year 2023

This year's winner means to have "style, charm, or attractiveness; the ability to attract a romantic or sexual partner.”

 What is it that makes people fall in love?

Reading nursery rhymes and singing to babies can help them learn language

Babies don’t begin to process phonetic information reliably until seven months old – too late to form the foundation of language.

Mother reading to a baby girl.

The unexpected benefits of being bilingual - study

Florida research studied between those who speak two languages and those who speak one and found that the bilingual brain may be better at ignoring irrelevant info

Children at Beersheba’s Hagar bilingual school read together

Israeli school teaches English through hands-on art

Experimenting with new things was the approach chosen by Oshrit Mor, coordinator of AMIT Hammer’s English program and its Mofet program for gifted students.

 Parents and students participating at AMIT Rehovot.

How do cities, countries get their nicknames? - explainer

Let’s take a little geographical galavant and see how certain cities came by their metropolitan monikers. 

 Lights along the Champs-Elysees with the Arc de Triomphe in the background.