Our resident language expert, Professor David Crystal, explains why Rumi's words were so mystical... Factoids on Rumi His epitaph: "When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in ...

English has secured its place as the global lingua franca, with over 1.3 billion speakers worldwide. As the language of ...

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The English language is challenging due to complicated grammar, inconsistent sentence structure and colloquial idioms that it doesn't share with related languages. However, English is a target ...

Prof Webb found that people who have been studying languages in a traditional setting - say French in Britain or English in Japan - often struggle to learn more than 2,000 to 3,000 words ...

We’re all guilty of using a thesaurus to find complicated words to use to sound smarter. Unfortunately this often backfires because we either don’t fully understand what the word means ...

Learn a Word Series 2 demonstrates fun ways and range of strategies for early readers to learn basic words in English. Learn a Word is informed by the Australian National Curriculum. ABC iview Home ...

English can be a very silly language, with many words looking nothing like the way they should be said. There are also a lot of words that so many people say slightly wrong, that often people are ...