Krupa Padhy uncovers how we really learn foreign languages – in a dual challenge involving both Portuguese and Mandarin.

Set in an Iranian class for adults attempting to learn English, this flawed but intriguing drama digs deep into issues of ...

The Less-Commonly-Taught Languages Center hosted its annual sixth annual Language Coffeehouse on Feb. 20 in the William Pitt Union.

"Speak English Only" reads the whiteboard lettering in the Iranian classroom where four advanced students prepare for their Test of English as a Foreign Review - English at the Alley Theater ...

I did not choose to be born in Iran. I did not choose Farsi as my mother tongue. No one can ask me why I was born there or why I speak that language. That part of my identity was given to me. My ...

Rojia Afshar is grateful for the opportunity to become a U.S. citizen. She's hoping to unjam the gears of her mother’s case, ...

RTÉ want you to pick up some new words for Seachtain na Gaeilge, so we decided to get in on the act. Some words needed to be translated from Bearla, some words that can't be translated, and some are ...

Cambridge University Professor Josephine Quinn on why the 'West' was a hard-won idea, and why the idea of great civilizations of the world is so attractive and so harmful to the practice of history ...

I play the character of Goli. She's the youngest character in the play; she's 18. For Goli specifically, her relationship to ...

ENGLISH, written by playwright Sanaz Toossi, won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and crafts an intimate, devastating portrait of language—as both bridge and barrier. Set in an Iranian classroom, the ...

From Kotdwar to Lucknow’s protective circle, a single month reveals the pressures — and quiet courage — shaping India’s ...

Following Jim Ratcliffe’s controversial words about Britain being ‘colonised’ by immigrants, my Telegraph colleague, Michael Deacon, pointed out that, to mark the 70th anniversary of the Empire ...