David Shariatmadari, theguardian.com. We’d all like to believe in untranslatable words. It’s such a romantic thought: that there exist out there, like undiscovered desert islands, ideas we have never even conceived of. Carefully guarded by foreigners ... read more
NeuroNet. Research shows language requires both storing words in our brains and real-time composition. A new study, published in PLoS ONE, discovers a difference between how boys and girls store and retrieve words. Our brains store sounds, words and commo... read more
Marwa Morgan, Daily News – Egypt. Being bilingual improves cognitive skills and delays the onset of dementia, independent of education and immigration status, says a recently published study by the American Academy of Neurology. Bilingualism might h... read more
Quora User, linguistics PhD @ Berkeley, neuroscientist @ the VA. Linguistic Relativity is one of those linguistics topics that has managed to capture the public’s imagination for decades. George Orwell’s newspeak, the Eskimo Words for Snow m... read more
Businnes Insider Richard Lewis, Richard Lewis Communications. Time is seen in aparticularly different light by Eastern and Western cultures, and even within these groupings assumes quite dissimilar aspects from country to country. In the Western Hemisphe... read more
Businnes Insider Richard Lewis, Richard Lewis Communications. Time is seen in aparticularly different light by Eastern and Western cultures, and even within these groupings assumes quite dissimilar aspects from country to country. In the Western Hemispher... read more
by Miriam Clifford teachthought.com , opencolleges.edu.au. This post has been republished from a 2012 post. The concept of teaching creativity has been around for quite some time. Academics such as E. Paul Torrance, dedicated an entire lifetime to the... read more
Quora User, linguistics PhD @ Berkeley, neuroscientist @ the VA. Linguistic Relativity is one of those linguistics topics that has managed to capture the public’s imagination for decades. George Orwell’s newspeak, the Eskimo Words for Snow m... read more