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An Austrian Twitter user has been banned off of the platform for 12 hours for tweeting the phrase "die boomer"—which is not a threat in the German language.

"I myself am an immigrant from Guatemala, so this wasn't the intended meaning!" said Duolingo co-founder Luis von Ahn.

"I find [the dogs] actually responded to it better than English," says dog trainer Miguel Rodriguez.

Trump said he thinks his language is nice, but in the past he has encouraged violence against journalists.

"I would never intend to hurt another."

From the vibrant colors of Pedro Almodóvar to Guillermo del Toro's intricate, gothic fantasies.

The man is believed to have cost Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden around $223,000 in lost sales.

"We understand that the Russian people and Southerners are natural allies in blood, culture, and religion."

"Koko touched the lives of millions as an ambassador for all gorillas and an icon for interspecies communication and empathy," a Gorilla Foundation statement read.

"The words are a symptom of the ways in which we create narratives that exclude people from envisioning themselves in the future."

Researchers believe the critical period for mastering a new language is longer than previously thought.

Tourism Fiji is investigating after it posted the video on Facebook and Instagram.

Drumming patterns are used to emulate spoken phrases.

Besides our individual biological make up, colour perception is less about seeing what is actually out there and more about how our brain interprets colours to create something meaningful.

"It's likely that all great apes can understand at least some of this system of gestures."

New research shows that orcas are amazingly good at imitating human speech.

In addition to dozens of bathing, naked women, the illustrations feature stars, planets, plants and diagrams resembling Zodiac signs.

"It doesn't need to be plain text and a cipher; it could be English and French."

"We shouldn't just assume that something is completely safe."

The study authors listened to more than 22,000 voice recordings.

The name confusion tells a story of two nations divided by a common language.

This bulbous-headed animal had to learn to fit in with her sleeker cousins.

A lot of changes to the English language happened for no reason at all.

New research may challenge what we thought we knew about the evolution of language, suggesting that grammar evolves faster than the lexicon.

Russia's foreign ministry and its embassy in the U.K. went after Langley after an ad for new Russian-language officers went online.

The thousands of languages spoken around the world are unevenly spread—researchers have a theory about why far more are spoken in tropical regions of the world.

Learning a new language opens people's eyes to a way of doing things in a way that's different from their own, which is called "cultural competence."

The countries have a shared history and speak the same language but are technically still at war. Will the relationship improve under South Korea's new leader?

The term is from the 1930s

In Israel, Arabic has long been a quasi-official language. It may soon get a tacit demotion