TikTok user Diego Rivas has received millions of views for his videos that capture what different languages sound like to people who do not speak the language. “Gibberish”: Rivas, who uses the handle ...

One of the most daunting tasks when traveling abroad is attempting to understand the language. To most people, a different language can sound like complete gibberish as speech patterns, inflection and ...

Why is it so easy to hear individual words in your native language, but in a foreign language they run together in one long ...

Eylem Altuntas is a researcher at the BabyLab within the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour, and Development at Western Sydney University. Babies are like little detectives, constantly piecing ...

What’s in a swear? The world’s filthiest words typically refer to something vulgar or taboo, for one. But there’s something else swears across the world’s languages have in common. They’re all missing ...

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