If your lexicon has stagnated a bit since your SAT-studying days, it may be time to expand your vocabulary. After all, there’s nothing like a word no one knows to break the ice in awkward social ...

Back in August, Massively wrote a little post about Swedish research on MMOs and language learning. That article provoked me, a gamer and teacher of English for speakers of other languages (ESOL), to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm an American writer working in fiction and nonfiction. Birds sing. Green monkeys have separate alarm calls for snakes and ...

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 ...

Nerdsday fell on a Tuesday this year, and I invited a friend over for a doubleheader: a round of Stet!, the new language game based on “Dreyer’s English,” followed by an episode of Mark Allen’s “That ...

Think you could safely tell the difference between Russian, Hindi, Spanish and Telugu? The Great Language Game is the place to test that theory. The online guessing game has yielded a ton of data for ...

Mark has been thinking and writing about games since a Gameboy Pocket and a copy of Link's Awakening was first placed into his tender, seven-year-old hands. Since then, he snagged a creative writing ...

Moss was one of E3 2017’s surprise hits, telling a story from the perspective of a tiny, adorable mouse using the PlayStation VR headset. Since mice don’t speak, however, the game’s animation director ...