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 ...

You can swot up on vocabulary in your sleep, but only if you don’t confuse your brain in the process. Researchers have invited people to their sleep lab for a Dutch language course. You can swot up on ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- So far, my favorite sentence in Dutch is “Ik fiets vaak:” I bike often. I’m also a big fan of “heel veel,” which means very much. I learned both from Duolingo, the addictive ...

The idea that dozing off with a textbook under one’s pillow enables “learning by osmosis” may be nothing more than a running joke among chemistry students, but a new study finds listening to ...

For those navigating daily life in the Netherlands, the Dutch language often feels like the final hurdle to full integration, ...

“I should have done it 10 years ago,” says Bill Bosler, a 61-year-old American sitting in a room of students wrestling with basic Dutch. This small group is taking an intensive language course at the ...

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 ...

Adults learning another language often tend to continue using the intonation of their native language. This causes them to ...