Los Angeles-based writer and script supervisor Jiayan He works across language, culture, and production, bringing the ...

Half of the dialogue in my film “CODA” is in American Sign Language. How do you write for a language that has no written form? I didn’t. Not at first. When I started studying ASL, it struck me how ...

Nushu emerged from the isolated villages of southern China and is the only language created and used exclusively by women. Today it is celebrated across China as a symbol of female empowerment, but ...

The Rosetta Stone allowed 19th century scholars to translate symbols left by an ancient civilization and thus decipher the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphics. But the symbols found on many other ...

Researchers at the HSE Centre for Language and Brain used eye-tracking to examine how bilinguals switch between languages in response to context shifts. Script differences were found to slow down this ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. When in doubt, ask Ken Watanabe. That’s what the producers and directors of ...

The University's ESL program and language courses support international students and create culturally rich learning ...

Language no longer defines Darshana Rajendran’s choices— she says an exciting script will always win her over. “For a while, I thought I would only take up work in a language if I was fluent in it.

As a teenager, Kaoru Akagawa couldn’t read her Japanese grandmother’s letters, but she put it down to her unclear handwriting. Over a decade later, Kaoru realized her grandmother hadn’t been a poor ...