The pain felled her like an ax to the skull. A moment after it hit, Ellen Spencer crumpled to her knees, unable to move. It was a gloomy Monday during a rain-soaked week in Indianapolis, and Spencer, ...

We’ve long championed subtitles, but dubbing has only gained popularity in an increasingly global entertainment industry. And what about those movies where Americans are supposed to be Italian, or ...

Whether you’re playing baseball in France or the United States, Daniel Patrice and Matthieu Desgouilles have found there’s no need for translation to understand certain parts of the game. Both are ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

“I’ve become resigned to speaking like this,” he says. The 17-year old boy’s mother tongue is Dutch, but for his whole life he has spoken with what sounds like a French accent. “This is who I am and ...

Language lovers and locals of an isolated mining region of the Ozarks are scrambling to preserve what's left of a dialect known as pawpaw French before it fades. The dialect once dominated this ...

The latest campaign to protect the French language isn’t being waged over anglicisms like “hashtag” or “selfie,” but the design of a keyboard. This week, the French government announced a plan to ...

In most languages, including English, vowels that occur next to nasal consonants (m, n, and ng in English) are produced as slightly or entirely nasal. I saw this as phonetically interesting. In my ...

Shailene Woodley speaks French in the new Netflix romance "The Last Letter From Your Lover." The director told Insider that Woodley memorized the script since she isn't fluent in the language. Because ...