Reading residents are being asked to help a university study into how many languages are used in the town. The University of ...

Linguistics is often called "the science of language," the study of the human capacity to communicate and organize thought using different tools (the vocal tract for spoken languages, hands for sign ...

You need to achieve the required level of English to qualify for a place on your chosen course or programme. Different courses or programmes need different levels of language skills. We refer to these ...

Combine the study of sociology with learning a modern language. Spend a year abroad at one of our partner institutions. Taught jointly by the Department of Sociology and the Language Centre, this BSc ...

Do speakers of different languages build sentence structure in the same way? In a neuroimaging study, scientists recorded the brain activity of participants listening to Dutch stories. In contrast to ...

Do speakers of different languages build sentence structure in the same way? In a neuroimaging study published in PLOS Biology, scientists from the Max Planck institute for Psycholinguistics, Donders ...

If you want to study at the University of Sheffield, you must be able to show that your English is good enough for you to successfully complete your course. This webpage lists the English language ...

The study found that Aalto University in Espoo is the most English-speaking university in Finland. Almost all of its master's ...

A new study adds to the growing body of evidence on the cognitive benefits of speaking multiple languages, finding that multilingualism not only enhances general cognitive abilities but also may help ...

As Alzheimer's disease progresses, hippocampus, the area related to memory shrinks, but knowing two or more languages helps slow that, as per this study. Alzheimer's disease is a neurodegenerative ...