America lags when it comes to being able to speak more than one language.
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Better job prospects and richer lives are among the many reasons to learn a foreign language, an expert on foreign language instruction writes.
What factors contribute to some places having many, while other places have few?
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Linguists have a lot of largely untested theories. Borrowing a tool from ecology, researchers built a model that didn't look for one worldwide explanation.
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English will remain an official EU language – even after Brexit – and this will impact the way it evolves.
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Britons are notoriously bad at learning other languages. Here are some of the things that they find difficult.
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This explains why some aspects of English can be hard to learn for speakers of other languages.