Gopal Haldar asked if I was from Sylhet. No, the communist scholar explained politely, it wasn’t my telltale surname; the question — more of a statement really — was prompted by my unconscious ...

Violent protests have broken out in Bangladesh following the death of a youth leader, as mobs set fire to newspaper offices and left journalists trapped inside the burning buildings. Two major ...

DHAKA, Dec 15, 2025 (BSS) - The first artificial intelligence (AI) technology-based platform for the Bengali language, ‘Kagoj.ai’, has been launched. Alongside it, a new Bengali font called “July” has ...

Learning a new language requires a lot of time, but not necessarily a lot of money. Whether you're traveling to a foreign country or studying for a class, these are the best free language learning ...

TOKYO (AP) — I speak decent Spanish, picked up working several decades ago as a news and sports reporter in Spain, Mexico and Argentina. Now I report from Tokyo. After seven years, I still can’t grasp ...

If you want to know what’s causing climate change and how it affects where you live, don’t turn to the Environmental Protection Agency for answers. The government agency purged basic facts about ...

Learning a new language before the Internet was brutal. It involved dense textbooks and a bunch of in-person classes, spending innumerable hours en route to full fluency. We've come a long way since ...

Speaking multiple languages could slow down brain ageing and help to prevent cognitive decline, a study of more than 80,000 people has found. The work, published in Nature Aging on 10 November, ...

Thor Sawin has received funding for teacher development projects through the State Department Fulbright Specialist and English Language Specialist program, as well as the US Air Force and LCC ...

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. From the founding of our Republic, English has been used as our national language. Our Nation’s historic governing documents, including the Declaration of Independence ...

Babies start processing language before they are born, a new study suggests. A research team in Montreal has found that newborns who had heard short stories in foreign languages while in the womb ...

Many legacy platforms built their reputation on streaks, badges, and gamified practice, a formula that made language learning accessible but often left learners strong on recognition but weaker on ...