Spring has sprung, and the summer is fast closing in, and – more importantly – international travel is returning in the coming months. This means the opportunity to immerse yourself in different ...

One Sunday, at one of our weekly salsa sessions, my friend Frank brought along a Danish guest. I knew Frank spoke Danish well, because his mother was Danish, and he had lived in Denmark as a child. As ...

Communication between people who don't share a language can prove challenging. Learning a new one is an option, but that's a time-consuming and potentially costly solution. Besides, what if you just ...

It takes between 600 and 2,200 hours to learn a foreign language. And while I wish I had time to study the vast rainbow of languages I’ve encountered in my travels, it’s sadly impossible. Thankfully, ...

Literary translator Sean Bye invites us into his process – and talks with fellow translators from Polish, including Marta Dziurosz, David French, Scotia Gilroy, Karen Kovacik, Antonia Lloyd-Jones and ...

While living in Germany, my daughter went to a kindergarten where her teacher only spoke German. My daughter, immersed in the language, became my translator. It made me think about how different ...