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One of the biggest challenges for speakers of non-gendered languages such as English is figuring out how to get their heads ...
Students sitting this morning’s higher-level French paper were tested more than usual by tricky vocabulary and grammar questions in the second comprehension question, teachers have said. Barry ...
The $45,000-a-year private school is spending big on a new inner-city development. It comes with some unusual neighbours.
He’s one of thousands of Victorians with culturally diverse backgrounds turning back to learn their ancestral languages.
A good friend of mine grew up in Lebanon and spoke both Arabic and French. He came here for college, speaking no English. He learned the language from books and ...
Young people at a local secondary school have been lauded for their year of achievement at a special ceremony.
You step into a university cafe in Rabat to hear students joke with their friends in Darija as they switch to English.
Inspired by the passionate response to the semicolon’s supposed decline, this quiz invites you to test – and perhaps rediscover – your grasp of English grammar, from the basics to the beautifully obsc ...
Missouri and Illinois, the two states at the heart of the St. Louis region, have landed on a new list of the ...
If you’re planning a trip to France, you might be worried about how to communicate with the locals. Will you be able to get ...
Poetry and translation are both about picking the just-right word. But reading multiple translations makes an implicit case for celebrating abundance and variety.