Language learning apps like Duolingo are useful, but they have their limits. They're ideal for getting started with a new language, beefing up vocabulary, practicing skills, and even having fun ...

Wendi Pillars, NBCT, has taught for nearly three decades, both overseas and stateside, in military and civilian contexts. She is the author of Visual Impact and Visual Notetaking for Educators. Find ...

What would you do if your girlfriend asked you to learn her native language even though you both speak English fluently? That ...

Cochlear implants give children with profound hearing loss a much better chance to learn spoken language. However, the sounds ...

In one form or another, I keep coming back to the importance of young people learning to effectively speak up. I do so because having or lacking this capacity seems to make such a profound social and ...

Army veteran Julie Trias is a cofounder and CTO of Teleskope. I struggled in the transition to civilian life from the first day I left my last duty station. After military service, I used the GI Bill ...

Silence may be golden, but sometimes it comes at a cost. When you stay quiet, you can’t effect change. Holding your tongue means internalizing your feelings. Silence also keeps you from building ...

Dogs have spent centuries figuring us out. They’ve mastered our gestures, watched our moods, and even learned to follow our eyes. Yet ask most humans what a tucked tail or flattened ear means, and you ...