People who speak more than five languages, known as polyglots, light up in the “language network” of the brain when they listen to languages that they speak, with stronger responses to the ones they ...

A guide to which languages are most widely spoken, hardest to learn and other revealing facts. 1. How many languages are there? It’s estimated that up to 7,000 different languages are spoken around ...

Almost half of all people in the world today speak an Indo-European language, one whose origins go back thousands of years to a single mother tongue. Languages as different as English, Russian, ...

WHY? is our attempt to answer all the questions every little kid asks. Do you have a question? Send it to why@mentalfloss.com. Did you know there are about 7000 languages in the world today? That’s a ...

Universidad Nebrija provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation ES. Universidad Nebrija provides funding as a member of The Conversation EUROPE. Picture this: you find yourself in a ...