The number of high school students taking a modern language at GCSE level has fallen significantly since the early 2000s. In 2002, just over three quarters of students were taking a modern ...

For centuries before the alphabet, cuneiform pictograms represented the written language of Mesopotamia and surrounds. According to a paper in Antiquity, a stone cylinder dating from Uruk in ...

BEIJING: Beijing said on Tuesday (Nov 19) that the head of a Myanmar ethnic minority armed group had come to China for "medical care", after news reports in its war-torn neighbour said he had ...

Go to any country where you don't speak the language, and you will obviously have some trouble communicating. You may have a little help, with languages sharing common roots and similar words ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This handout photo provided by the Karen Human Rights Group shows debris of a school building destroyed by ...