KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany - Seven 7th Mission Support Command Soldiers are spending the week learning Russian. The Army Reserve Soldiers are from the 361st Civil Affairs Brigade headquarters in ...

Syrians seem to be laying the groundwork for an enduring Russian presence in the country with an increase in Russian language education. In Damascus, children sing the Russian alphabet along with ...

Learning a foreign language as an adult is challenging, but there are ways you can easily enhance the process. Here are five strategies you can employ to help you learn a new language more efficiently ...

Many of us have entertained the idea of expanding our horizons. Learning a foreign language is an obvious option. It’s one that I would personally endorse: My individual circumstances were such that, ...

The long-held idea that language learning is better before adulthood is up for debate. Adults have a number of advantages when it comes to learning a second language, and it comes with major benefits.

A Tajik who grew up in Dushanbe but only recently returned after decades in Russia has noticed a change in the Tajik capital. Hardly anyone speaks Russian anymore. As Konstantin Parshin at ...

All children are born with the same kind of brain wiring, so at the outset, we are all equally adept at learning any possible human language. For a newborn, any language is, in principle, as easy or ...

Languages rise and fall with history, in nations and university language departments alike. In 1980, when Roman Koropeckyj stepped into his classroom at Harvard to teach Polish, he was “gobsmacked” by ...

LVIV and ODESA, Ukraine — In prewar Ukraine, Svitlana Panova spoke her native Russian without giving it much thought. But now, she has lost her home to Russia twice — fleeing Crimea after Russia's ...

A third of Ukrainians speak Russian as their first language. But Russia's invasion has led several people to distance themselves from the language. We're 60 days into Russia's assault on Ukraine. Much ...