This study reports on the impact of 11 West European first languages on the acquisition of Dutch. Using data from nearly 6,000 secondlanguage learners, it was found that the mother tongue had a rather ...

Becoming a bilingual can change a person's cognitive functioning and language processing in a number of ways. This study focused on how knowledge of a second language influences how people read ...

George Bernard Shaw once described the Americans and British as “two peoples separated by a common language,” underscoring that we are especially prone to misunderstandings when we think we are ...

The Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning will hold the twenty-seventh annual celebration of Founder’s Day Sanday evening, March 11, in the college building. JTA has documented Jewish ...