These people are multilingual, meaning that they can speak fluently in multiple languages – some people three or four, while a tiny minority speak more than 5. These people are known as polyglots.

Your mother tongue may modify your musical ability. Speaking a native language that requires tones appears to boost perception of melody, but at the cost of rhythm, researchers report April 26 in ...

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A new study found that native Arabic and German speakers showed differences in the wiring of brain regions involved in the processing of language.

Much of this 12.5 million bits of language information stored in the brain is not related to grammar and syntax, but rather is about word meaning, according to the study.

"Language holds our culture, and if you know the meaning then you know that world view. And each little morsel gives you a better understanding," says Diane Amour.

But they’re still with us.” So is their language—thanks in large part to unknown Native authors who adopted a new alphabet and found ways to preserve their own voices within a changing world.

I did it in English, his native language, the language we’d bonded through — my second language. While writing about him, I embraced English to convey some sense of meaning, of hope.