Certainly, you might find related words within a language that sound alike – think glance, glimmer and glare in English, which all have to do with vision and begin with a “gl.” But that doesn’t mean ...

Bernd Brunner, a native German speaker, is unhappy that so many people find his language hard on their ears. I confess that I had a negative opinion of spoken German, until I started watching German ...

Stop YouTube from replacing original audio with auto-dub. Switch back to the creator’s real voice using simple settings, ...

Plato's dialogue Cratylus begins with a debate. Socrates is asked whether the sounds of words are simply arbitrary conventions, as Hermogenes suggests, or if sounds are reflective in some way of their ...

Click the speech balloon in the lower-right corner of a browser window while a video is playing. In the app, pause playback and select the speech balloon underneath the progress bar. Which subtitles ...

Where you grew up may influence how you speak. High in the mountains, languages contain short bursts of sound, says a new study. Why? Maybe cliff dwellers needed to keep their throats from drying out.

Here’s one of the least interesting paragraphs you’ve ever read: “Last night I opened the front door to let the cat out. It was such a beautiful night that I wandered down to the garden to get a ...