As a part-time English teacher, I always tell my students the best way to motivate yourself to learn another language is to engage with something you're passionate about in that language: whether that ...

One of my earliest memories is of struggling with the English language. Five years old and dressed in a blue school uniform, I kept asking my teacher, Mrs Peters, for "pani". Neither she nor I knew ...

A little part of me cringes every time I do it, but at this point it's second nature. It's hard to describe in words, but it involves a lot of leveling, a lot of smoothing. The tongue stays closer to ...