Language Tutors are here to support all modern and ancient languages offered at Bates, including Latin, Ancient Greek, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, German, and French. We try to have both ...

How would you define the word cute, as in 'your child is cute”? Could you explain the idiom, 'It's raining cats and dogs,” to someone who doesn't speak English? Linda Merritt's students often ...

Why learn a new language? Should students do it for a Harvard language citation? For a study abroad program? For job opportunities at international companies? For fun? The answer to all of these is ...

In the early days of the internet, when remote work first started taking off, there were quite a few jobs out there for ...

AI language tutor startup Speak has raised $78M in a new funding round, at a $1B valuation. The Series C round was led by Accel with support from existing investors including the OpenAI Startup Fund, ...

Baer faced these same cultural barriers living in Naples, Italy, for three years while her husband was stationed there in the Navy. The experience motivated her to later become a volunteer tutor at ...

A crowdfunded smart speaker called Lily is a personal Chinese language tutor, according to the team behind it. This is the first smart speaker designed to teach language learners how to speak Chinese, ...

For all their hype, chatbots kind of suck right now. Not necessarily because they’re fundamentally bad, but because it’s often apparent a good old app or website is more convenient and reliable. But ...

Google Translate could soon add AI-powered language lessons A new “Practice” mode will challenge Duolingo with personalized learning activities Search Google in translated languages with one tap ...

These days, when someone starts to suggest that “soon” or “one day” things will “go back to normal,” they inevitably stop themselves and let their statement trail off into the ether. Normal, we have ...