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Nottingham will be the only Russell Group university not to teach modern foreign languages degrees if it approves plans to close a swath of courses including…

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here.My relationship with English began by force.…

Another day, another cute story about how dogs can grasp elements of human language and use them to communicate with us.First, there was Mr Waffles, the…

Getty ImagesRAF Valley trains UK fighter pilots as well as crew for mountain and maritime operationsThe Ministry of Defence (MoD) spends about £1m a year sending…

“Why do Australians care about the domestic politics of the US?” is being asked a lot.In the wake of another bloody week in US news and…

The Israeli writer Etgar Keret has talked to NPR about the importance of stories in a time of war. Keret tells Scott Detrow why he recently…

Despite a once bitter rivalry that dates to before the Spanish Armada in 1588, pupils in England are studying español in greater numbers than ever before,…

Suzanne BearneTechnology ReporterXYZ FilmsSwedish movie Watch the Skies was dubbed into English using AIFinding international films that might appeal to the US market is an important…

A pattern of “hostile language” in news reports and UK parliamentary debates is more likely to describe people of colour as immigrants, or with less sympathy,…

The Mercury prize-nominated Cornish/Welsh singer Gwenno Saunders has said that Cornish should be more widely taught to children in the far south-west of Britain to protect…