Judy Cohen from Lakeside Education Services gets us up to speed on some of the terms and phrases her students are using.

TL;DR: Use code LEARN to get a Babbel lifetime subscription on sale for $159. Learning a new language is hard, but the app you’re using might be making it harder than it has to be. Instead of drilling ...

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is making final preparations to host the Deaflympics, which is known as the Olympics for people with hearing difficulties and is starting on Saturday, such as ...

The mayor of Lincolnshire is considering scrapping English lessons for foreign nationals. Dame Andrea Jenkyns said the £1m budget should be used on a "scheme which focuses on literacy and numeracy to ...

The Senate is no longer allowing senators to be reimbursed for spouses receiving language training. The changes were passed yesterday at a Senate committee meeting on internal economy, budgets and ...

Analysis: Figurative language is the term for the many linguistic devices we consciously or subconsciously draw upon in our conversations The traditional method for learning another language was to ...

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New research has found fewer students are studying languages now than in the 1930s - and educators are calling for a solution. The report, Language Learning for New Zealand’s Future, says second ...

The app can now translate your conversations in real time, too. The app can now translate your conversations in real time, too. is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, ...

In August 2025, a rumor spread online that the language learning app Duolingo apologized for calling "Harry Potter" author JK Rowling "mean" in a German lesson. Duolingo did, in fact, apologize in an ...

Language learning app apologised for a German lesson in which the question “Do you like books with Harry Potter as a character?” had the correct answer: "Yes, but in my opinion the author is mean.” ...