Learning Languages

A former Mayor of Vancouver has launched a program called "greeting fluency" in which he wants to encourage people in Vancouver to learn to greet one another in different languages. Being able to say "hello" and "how are you", without any chance o...

The Economist is running a poll on the most important language to learn. Esperanto is on top. More than anything this shows how skewed this kind of internet polling can be. If you asked 100 random people on the street I doubt if many would know wh...

I finally returned from my trip to the Cook Islands, New Zealand and Australia. I loved the layed back tropical paradise atmosphere of Roratonga, the green and clean nature of New Zealand, and the energy and optimism of Australia, and friendly peo...

A recent study shows that adults can learn languages better than children. There are other studies that show children as better at learning languages, and point to a critical period after which it is more difficult to learn languages. We know empi...

Multiculturalism and language learning. A TV conversation with David Berner. This will be added as a lesson in the English library at LingQ as soon as we have the transcript. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnNgiNYLF_s]