When Nathan Acevedo, a junior Spanish education and Chinese double major at the University of Delaware, first began learning Spanish in high school, he was “really bad at it” and almost quit. But ...

Imagine a near future in which people no longer learn language. Instead we stream it, much like many of us, today, stream music or movies, on demand to our computers. But in the future, we would ...

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Here's something to think about as you sip your latté (or your piña colada) while listening to Beyoncé (or Mötley Crüe): Just how important to the English language are accented characters? And will ...