When you have learned words in another language, it may be worth listening to them again in your sleep. A study has now shown that this method reinforces memory. "Our method is easy to use in daily ...

What makes some words easier to learn than others? Researchers found that ideophones — words that sound like what they mean — are easier to learn than regular words. This suggests that some of our ...

When you walk into Albert Both’s casual classroom on Amsterdam’s Keizersgracht, where he’s been teaching internationals how to speak Dutch since 2009, you won’t find any traditional Dutch language ...

My phone is totally empty (dead) after I used it for the whole day. Mijn telefoon is helemaal leeg nadat ik hem de hele dag heb gebruikt.

I’ll drop by if possible. Ik kom langs als het kan. He pretends to know everything. Hij doet alsof hij alles weet. He cycles just like a professional. Hij fietst net als een professional. We can go if ...

Sometimes life, with the aid of an unrelenting news cycle, can feel like an exercise in parsing out the particular kind of bad we are experiencing. Are we anxious or depressed, lonely or stressed? Tim ...

Ideophones, or words that sound like what they mean—words whose sound evokes the sensory experience they describe, like swish or twinkle—are easier to learn than other words, a new study finds. The ...