Can you find a link between the pics, or as Dr Spooner might have said, a pink between the licks?

To put the title question another way: Are there more synonyms in English than in other languages? The simple answer is yes. The Oxford...

Pausing for breath you look up from the steep mountain path and see nothing but blue sky beyond the ridge, visible only now that the mist...

Some eponymous inventions from around the world One of the best things about teaching/learning languages is that there is always an...

Discussion point: “English is the most tonal of all European languages.” The Swede could make a similar claim, but they do it in a...

Whichever foreign language you are studying, you may or may not be familiar with the nomenclature of English Sunday-league football. Voilà

Humour: one of the best tools of the linguist, whether to understand the target language/culture or to laugh at ourselves - and with others

Reflections, skimming stones on a Swedish lake, the silence is total.

Learning birds' names in foreign languages is considered 'next level' vocabulary. Here's a start...

how to type accents on foreign words, special characters, “diacritics”. Here is a range of options for how to do it

There is no such thing as a synonym, says the poet. The language teacher respectfully disagrees...

Learning idiomatic expressions in a foreign language can pose a series of challenges, but feels great when you get it right

Are you learning Spanish? Of the four main skills: reading, writing, listening and speaking, which do you find the most difficult to make...

An effective translation between languages is rarely word for word. A great translation is never word for word, especially when...

There was recently an online discussion in which non-native speakers shared their thoughts on the hardest aspect of learning English. The...