The Hungarian language is famously difficult. Discover what makes it hard and how beginners can learn it successfully.

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Today's NYT Wordle lands with puzzle #1674, and this Sunday challenge serves up a botanical term that could stump players unfamiliar with culinary herbs..

This article offers a contrastive analysis of the phonological segments of Kabiyè and French and presents an integrated teaching framework for teaching French in multilingual environments. It ...

The mammals' mysterious clicks contain a stunning level of complexity, a new study shows. A group of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) swims together in the Indian Ocean. For years, researchers ...

The way sperm whales communicate may be more similar to human language than previously thought. The acoustic properties of whale calls resemble vowels, a defining feature of human language, according ...

Sperm whales swimming off the coast of Dominica. The marine mammals have a complex communication system that scientists are working to decode. Amanda Cotton Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 ...

AS READERS OF “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” will know, humans are only the third-cleverest species on Earth. The first two places go to mice and dolphins. But perhaps Douglas Adams’s comic ...

The September roll call can spark dread and pride in equal measure, especially when teachers pause at unfamiliar letters and sounds. New classes mean new faces, fresh routines and a register full of ...