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Language acquisition

Maisam Hosseini and his teacher

What it’s like to learn a second language when you can’t read and write in your first

Education

In Afghanistan, survival meant escaping the Taliban. In Belgium it means learning Dutch.

Pregnancy

Our ability to speak doesn’t begin with our first words. It begins in the womb.

Science
Baby and mother

Bilingual babies practice lip-reading long before monolingual counterparts

Science
A Haitian child who will be placed for adoption sleeps in his crib at an orphanage outside of Port-au-Prince.

There may be languages lurking in your unconscious mind

Science
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