How is it that we live in a country where millions of people speak Arabic, yet we, as a society, barely know the language?

Cairo — Economist Riham Shendy started collecting children's books when she was expecting her twins. An Egyptian married to a German and living in New York, she was determined to teach her children ...

An analysis by the Pew Research Center of Census data has determined that Arabic is now the fastest-growing language being spoken in U.S. homes. Pew looked at American Community Survey data from 2006 ...

Breaking with the long-standing norm for Arabic instruction, Cornell program combines instruction in written and spoken language -- an approach catching on elsewhere. Teaching conversation skills in ...

Mobile device convergence is accelerating like crazy, with a new breed of smartphones packing enough power to run an impressive range of software. And some of these mobile applications are getting ...

I share my daily life with two million Arabic speakers, and I can barely speak a word to them. The people who fix my car are ...

Microsoft’s Skype introduced launched its real-time translation feature out of beta about half a year ago and today it is adding Arabic — and more specifically, Modern Standard Arabic — as its eighth ...

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Learning languages as a skill is no longer restricted to the translation services market. The ability to speak and understand multiple languages is gaining popularity as an essential skill among ...