Ronny Chieng, Gary Gulman and other comics are experimenting with long buildups that can be audacious … when they work.

A conversation about salty language and peppering questions with examples and explanations in informal contexts.

Elder Ulisses Soares is still learning American idioms, he jokes in a short snippet from his devotional this week at a Latter ...

The other choice is chaos — let the students run the classroom and no one learns. “English” explores the tyranny, but fudges the chaos. Left unexplained is how one incompetent student eventually aces ...

In a Reddit post, a Bengaluru techie outlined the toxic corporate culture in Indian startups, addressing language barriers and social exclusion.

By Xander Zellner Non-English-language music has a long history on Billboard’s charts. While, naturally, the U.S.-centered Billboard Hot 100 chart mostly contains songs recorded in English ...

So it's refreshing to see Winnipeg will get the Canadian theatrical premiere of Universal Language ... with 'little references and little jokes' for Winnipeggers, as well as Farsi speakers ...

Looking for new ways to get students reading and responding to nonfiction? Try these exercises for discussion, writing and speaking. By Peggy Dimock Choose three to five works of art or culture to ...

The English language ability you need depends on the academic level of the course you want to study. You can find the specific language skills required on our course pages. All our courses are ...

Have you ever heard someone tell a tired old joke, only for someone else to dismiss it as an “old chestnut”? Jokes aren’t the only thing to get labeled this way. Everything from well-trodden movie ...

How Duolingo's unhinged social strategy—rooted in humor, cultural relevance, and a quirky mascot—has turned the app into a ...

Several of modern entertainment’s lower-stakes debates revolve around the use of subtitles. In this particular case, we’re ...