Learning a new language later in life can be a frustrating, almost paradoxical experience. On paper, our more mature and ...

The proficiency chart below (created by American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) shows levels of skills and knowledge in learning a foreign language. At the bottom of the pyramid is the ...

The Foreign Service Institute created a five-tier rank to determine how easy languages are for English speakers to pick up, and how long they would take to learn, based on their similarities to ...