Those who decide to spend the next few Saturdays at the library can do more than just read. You can learn another language — free of charge — and study an African culture. “Swahili is a gentle ...

Even to Luis Von Ahn, there are a few things about Duolingo, the mobile-phone based language learning app that he co-developed five years ago, that don’t make a lot of obvious sense. Like the fact ...

Swahili will be taught in Colombian schools as a foreign language option, Colombia's vice president has announced. She says the move will help Afro-Colombians reconnect with their roots, but it caused ...