Imagine that you’re flying Turkish Air. The beverage cart bumps down the aisle. A flight attendant holds up that little carafe and asks, kah-vay? You travel a lot. Now you’re flying Finnair. The ...

Cognates - words that sound similar in different languages - can be very helpful when learning another lingo. But sometimes they can turn out to be 'false friends' and mean something completely ...

Welcome back, fellow language learners and Costa Rica explorers! In our ongoing series about the linguistic adventures awaiting expats and tourists in this beautiful country, we’re diving deeper into ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information A refereed publication, The Modern Language Journal is dedicated to promoting scholarly exchange among teachers and researchers of ...

Work with cognates I've just picked up learning French. I memorise new words by taking a word that resembles or relates somehow to a word in another language I know and which I use frequently, for ...

Plants and animals aren't the only things that go extinct: Most words are replaced every few thousand years, with a maximum survival of roughly 9,000 years, say linguists. But in a new study published ...