She grabbed her phone and opened the language learning app right away. I smiled and did the same. We scootched our chairs together and each completed a lesson to meet our daily minimum requirement.

Speaking another language to accommodate non-English speaking customers/patients is great but alienating co-workers by not speaking English at work in an English speaking country is wrong, IMHO.

Speaking a second or even a third language can bring obvious advantages, but occasionally the words, grammar and even accents can get mixed up.

How to Fall in Love When You Don’t Speak the Same Language Multilingual relationships are a crash course in putting yourself out there.

But when physicians don’t speak the same language as their patients, communication challenges can worsen the situation.

No matter which language someone speaks, it conveys information at the same rate Human speech conveys information at 39 bits per second on average. That might not sound terribly impressive in an ...