Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. Ever imagined what it would be like to understand your favorite Chinese dramas without subtitles? Maybe you’ve gotten hooked on the ...

Arabic is the most difficult language to learn in the world. It is widely spoken in the Middle East and North Africa region, and is native to an estimated 110 million people. Like Persian, its script ...

There are over 7,000 languages in the world. Quite a few people in the world speak 2-4 languages fluently, usually because they were raised in a multilingual environment. In today’s interconnected, ...

All children are born with the same kind of brain wiring, so at the outset, we are all equally adept at learning any possible human language. For a newborn, any language is, in principle, as easy or ...

THE DIFFICULTY in learning a foreign language lies not only in its inherent complexity. Languages are complex in different ways (though all are learnable by infants). The main reason a language is ...

Japanese has been categorized by the US Foreign Service Institute as one of the five hardest languages to learn along with Arabic, Mandarin, Korean, and Cantonese. What makes Japanese a complex ...