German is often mocked as harsh, cold, or aggressive, but the real explanation goes deeper than the sounds themselves. Yes, ...

Abstract: Learning games have a remarkable potential for education. They provide an emergent form of social participation that deserves the assessment of their usefulness and efficiency in learning ...

Linguists at Charles University are reconstructing how ancient languages sounded. I discussed the Voices of Dead Languages project with one of its initiators Jan Bičovský.

Jürgen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany, has died. He was ...