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Movies are being watched a lot by Indian people and right from the titles to the song to the script, everything is in Hinglish. (Photo: Pixabay)

UK college to expand Hinglish course offering

Hinglish is easier to learn than Hindi because it is taught using Roman letters rather than the traditional Devanagari script.

10 Mar 2018 4:41 PM

It's not rare that a baby experiences a stroke around the time it is born. (Photo: Pixabay)

Brain's language functions get changed after perinatal stroke

hey also had some executive function impairments.

18 Feb 2018 6:29 PM

Literature is a good place to register something that is fundamental to the nature of language, Rai noted.

Language is linked with power, says Prof Alok Rai

Speaking at fifth Agyeya Memorial Lecture on ‘Struggle for Language’, litterateur talks about language’s struggle against itself.

19 Dec 2017 1:40 PM

Kids often get too little exercise time during the school day, parents need to provide these opportunities outside of school. (Photo: Pixabay)

Kids who get moving may also get better grades

The authors also looked at whether the effect of exercise differed across academic subjects.

09 Dec 2017 1:46 PM

Oxford Dictionaries has called on Hindi speakers across the country to help choose the word. (Photo: Pixabay)

Oxford to soon introduce first-ever Hindi word of the year

The Hindi word of the year will be a word or expression that has attracted a great deal of interest this year.

16 Nov 2017 1:31 PM

Scientists, including those from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Germany, analysed 81 Austronesian languages based on a detailed database of grammatical structures and lexicon. (Photo: Pixabay)

Here's how different languages developed

Researchers find that grammatical structures change more quickly than vocabulary.

03 Oct 2017 1:42 PM

Lost in Translation: Thailand offers course for women who marry foreigners

The course is to help Thai women cope with the highs and lows of interracial marriage.

05 Sep 2017 8:26 PM

Swear words use increasing in American literature: study

American authors used the seven risqué words 28 times more often in the mid-2000s than the early 1950s.

07 Aug 2017 6:43 PM

Indian currency notes have 17 languages printed on them. These serve to both remind people of the diversity of the country and as a security feature.

Language no bar, please

In the modern context, within India, we have mobility from rural to urban centres occurring at a rapid pace.

23 Jul 2017 2:41 AM

Pre-natal sensitivity to the rhythmic properties of language may provide children with one of the very first building blocks in acquiring language (Photo: Pixabay)

Learning language begins in womb

Experts say language development may indeed start in utero with fetuses tuning their ears to the language they are going to acquire.

19 Jul 2017 6:26 PM

Research shows that by the age of three, a child shows positive biases toward people who are similar to them and negative biases towards those who are different (Photo: Pixabay)

Newborns prefer people who speak their mother tongue

Findings suggest while newborns' bent toward familiar groups may be innate, dislike for un-familiar appears to be a learned behavior.

14 Jul 2017 8:20 AM

Representational Image. (Photo: Pixabay)

Cultural background linked to how people deceive others

This has implications for everything from forensic risk assessments, discrimination proceedings and the evaluation of asylum seekers.

07 Jun 2017 12:24 PM

The pre-mature babies are more receptive to language and cognition than other babies born on time. (Photo: Pixabay)

Pre-mature babies do better in early language development

The linking ability between language and meaning is faster

06 Jan 2017 11:11 AM

If you put men and women in a professional situation with the same training and ask them to produce similar results, their work will be indistinguishable. (Photo: Pixabay)

Men, women don't communicate differently in writing: study

Men and women were found to conform to a professional genre when they wrote for an audience with specific expectations.

28 Nov 2016 8:35 PM

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