Back in high school, when learning a foreign language was compulsory, I realized I was not exactly a linguistic prodigy. But, I did pick up on something intriguing—words often sound like their ...

Feltman: Italian, Spanish [laughs ... it’s written in the International Phonetic Alphabet], is associated with roughness and the “luh” sound [written as [l] in the International Phonetic ...

When we think of writing systems we likely think of an Alphabetic writing system, where each symbol (letter) in the alphabet represents a basic sound unit ... before the Spanish conquest ...

So has the Spanish Royal Academy ... the transliteration of familiar words into an alphabet with imperfectly matched ...

The word 'church' in common language has many meanings depending on the context. This is the story ...

Mom, are we going to have to run?' Here's how the first 24 hours of our unprecedented conflagration unfolded across L.A.

Director David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like 'Blue Velvet ...

In the front of the fluorescent-lit interior classroom, Andrea Parks read aloud from a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, stopping frequently to question her students: what did we just read? What ...

Kim Hyeong-bae, a South Korean linguist, had a problem: how to translate the word "deepfake" into Korean. A senior researcher ...

At home in the Alphabet Streets neighborhood ... including my family,” Redick said. “From the sound of things, with the winds coming tonight, I know a lot of people are scared.” ...

My daughter’s first shipment included two books, a workbook, and a pack of alphabet flash ... in English and Spanish, starting with learning letters and their sounds, then moving on to word ...