“I was asked to look into Spanish-language-learning programs for our insurance brokerage sales staff. Your past articles are highly critical of Babbel and Rosetta Stone. Their commercials claim to ...

Every Kindle works in multiple languages, and can download books in just about any tongue. Here’s how to take advantage.

Only 10% of people in the U.S. speak a foreign language proficiently. In comparison, in Europe, 65% of people can speak a second language other than their native tongue. Although the difference is ...

One hesitation I hear time and time again when I talk to people about traveling is, “But I don’t speak the language.” To be sure, a language barrier can be a bit of a problem when traveling, and not ...

Dutch courage may really help when it comes to speaking a foreign language, according to this year’s Ig Nobel Prize winner. Researchers at the University of Bath found that students were better at ...

Mr. Vanhoenacker is an airline pilot and an author. One morning late last autumn, I took off from London’s Heathrow Airport, my base as a Boeing 787 pilot, and landed the next morning at Haneda ...

Factors such as intense exposure to the L2, the type of dilemma presented, and even its specific wording can all influence ...

Foreign language anxiety (also known as xenoglossophobia) really comes into play for Americans visiting these countries.