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What it really means to speak Jamaican

By Cagney Roberts

Marlon Clark while in Antarctica (Credit: Marlon Clark)
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How an Antarctic base got its own accent

By Richard Gray
A map of Texas and a map of Florida with Spanish-English phrases written across them (Credit: Getty Images)
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Eslei! The new generation reinventing Spanglish

By Sophie Hardach
An illuminated red-and-golden dragon at a festival in China (Credit: Getty Images)
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The surprising 4,000-year history of dragons

By Future Planet team
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'A part of me was crying for freedom'

By Krupa Padhy
A man wearing a top hat holds up a furry brown rodent called a groundhog (Credit: Getty Images)
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The ancient Germanic history of Groundhog Day

By Sophie Hardach
A portrait of Mithu Sanyal, a writer, surrounded by manuscripts (Credit: Carolin Windel)
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Why I can't speak my dad's language

By Mithu Sanyal
A primary school child uses coloured cubes to study maths in a school in the UK (Credit: Getty Images)
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The languages that make maths easier

By David Robson
Mirror-writing is not more common in left-handed than in right-handed children (Credit: Getty Images)
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Why do children reverse letters?

By Sophie Hardach
A child writes a Japanese sign using black ink on paper (Credit: Getty Images)
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Can dyslexia 'vanish' in Japanese?

By Sophie Hardach
People who speak more than one language will often dream in a multilingual way – even if they are only learning (Credit: Emmanuel Lafont/BBC)
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Why we can dream in other languages

By Sophie Hardach
A watercolour painting from 1802 showing a Regency woman and man talking. The woman is holding a fan in front of her face (Credit: Getty Images)
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The 200-year-old hidden languages of dating

By Molly Gorman and William Park
Mayan temples in Mexico (Credit: Getty Images)
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The ancient languages reborn in the US

By Juan Pablo Pérez-Burgos
A bearded man using a phoropter with two bright multicoloured stars on the left and right side of his face (Credit: Serenity Strull/BBC/Getty Images)
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The people who 'see' foreign languages

By Katherine Latham
A brown and white cow with horns lies in mud with scientists' arms around him and other cows behind (Credit: Henk van de Ven/Leonie Cornips)
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The linguist learning to speak 'cow'

By Christopher J Preston
An illustration of a family in traditional Indian dress look at hills behind a fence (Credit: Prashanti Aswani)
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How India's Partition split my language

By Sanjana Bhambhani