Tatsuya Amano knows how daunting it is to be surrounded by people speaking a foreign language in your workplace. The conservation scientist left his native Japan in 2011 to work in the UK and then ...

Languages evolve and change drastically over time. If you were to say street corn, nepo baby, or beach read — three terms recently added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary — to early English speakers, ...

For Simon König (name changed), buying a pair of glasses from an optician in Zurich's city center proved to be an unexpected challenge. The sales staffers, he found, didn't speak a word of German.

Languages are not only communication tools, but in their diversity and ethnicity they are also integral parts of world culture. Communication and development policies which are not based on respect ...

Across its nearly 250-year history, the United States has never had an official language. On March 1, U.S. President Donald Trump changed that when he signed an executive order designating English as ...

English should be the official language of the United States, says an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on March 1, 2025. The move followed the Trump administration’s termination of the ...

“Official” is a very English word. It has its roots in the Old French “oficial” and the Latin “officialis,” and now — thanks to a new Trump executive order — describes the status of the English ...