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While Western dyslexia is primarily a phonological challenge involving sound-letter mapping, research shows that dyslexia in Chinese functions differently, impacting…
Why do almost all languages develop a word for "Red" before they create a word for "Blue"? This post explores…
In the 10th century, an envoy named John of Gorze adopted a radical language-learning strategy: two years of total silence…
From an Egyptian pharaoh to a Holy Roman Emperor, history is dotted with cruel attempts to discover humanity's "natural" language…
The delightful word 'serendipity' wasn't a happy accident itself, but a deliberate creation by 18th-century writer Horace Walpole. Inspired by…
Before QWERTY conquered the world, the first typewriter prototype had keys arranged in two simple rows like a piano. This…
L. L. Zamenhof may have invented Esperanto, but he didn't bring it to life alone. This is the story of…
What if you could record every moment of your child's life to understand how they learn to talk? MIT researcher…
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