When kids use emoji it may seem random—a bunch of silly pictures on a screen. But kids start out learning spoken and signed languages in a similar way: by babbling nonsense syllables, which ...

This 23-year-old Nigerian is creating a digital collection of African stories for children in different languages By Aisha Salaudeen , CNN 3 minute read ...

A new sign language created over the last 30 years by deaf children in Nicaragua has given experts a unique insight into how languages evolve. The language follows many basic rules common to all ...

If a newborn child grows up hearing people speaking in many different languages, will it later be able to speak all those languages? — Puneesh T., India Children learn languages from the people ...

A pervasive idea assumes that young children can absorb new languages with minimal effort, but it turns out that the science is more complicated. By Lindsay Patterson This story was originally ...

For language buffs, COVID-19 is a potential sci-fi plot.Think: Millions of families go inside for months—what will they all sound like when they come out? After all, Latin became French when ...

Buddy.ai’s approach of focusing on children learning English as a second language helps it stand out. “We just believe that the future is hybrid where AI tutors and AI agents can really help ...

Read to your children in different languages. Use wordless books if you can't read in your home language or it's a language that doesn't have a written form. Set mobile devices to your other ...

Further studies suggested that Chinese children find it easier to grasp the basic logic of our "base-10" counting system. Put simply, this is the fact that we use multiples of tens and units to ...