Computers that can read lips have long been a staple of science fiction, but turning that fantasy into working technology has ...

A year after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed inaugurated the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) at an international ceremony, his government is celebrating a startling success. The project is making ...

Plenty of technology can generate a vocabulary list. Teaching someone how to communicate naturally is a different job. Babbel Language Learning developed its courses with more than 100 expert ...

Yoon Dae-sik (center), executive vice president of external affairs at LG Electronics, poses for a commemorative photo with twin siblings, grandchildren of an Ethiopian Korean War veteran, at the 10th ...

As children in the United States head back to school this fall, some of them will have world language classes on their schedules. More than four-in-ten K-12 public schools (43%) offer such language ...

Learning a new language is good for your brain. Being able to speak and understand another tongue offers a form of mental stimulation, which keeps the brain active and sharp as we get older. In fact, ...

A linguistic “golden age” flourished between 1,000 to 3,000 years ago when tens of thousands of languages were spoken throughout the world, according to a new study coauthored by Yale linguist Claire ...

Ethiopia held its general elections on June 1, and with the majority of votes now finalized, all signs point to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali’s Prosperity Party having secured a vast majority. While ...

A new study of bilingual speakers suggests that a single “grammatical engine” in the brain can power multiple languages at once. By K. R. Callaway Speak a language your whole life and its grammatical ...

When Abiy Ahmed became Ethiopia’s prime minister in 2018, he offered a clean slate for Africa’s oldest uncolonized nation, which had been suffocated by decades of strict state control. His predecessor ...

A few months after coming to power in April 2018, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed signed a peace deal to end a decades-long insurgency in the country’s Oromia region. The same summer, he struck a ...

A SHEAF OF wheat can have many meanings. For Ethiopia’s Prosperity Party, which chose one as its campaign logo ahead of polls scheduled for June 1st, it is a symbol of national unity: stalks entwined ...