Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Arabic is one of the most spoken languages in the world, with over 400 million speakers.

Spencer Michels reports on America's growing interest to learn Arabic since September 11th. The terrorism attacks and the war in Afghanistan have prompted many Americans to try to learn more about ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Education systems worldwide are experiencing a seismic shift driven by technological ...

Last March, Gordon Gray Jr. ’65 bestowed a $1.5 million endowment to encourage the study of Arabic language at Harvard, especially among undergraduates, after Sept. 11. Gray, an alumnus of the Near ...

Inside a newly-renovated building in a Pineville shopping center, you’ll hear young children learning in Mandarin, Arabic, Spanish and English. ILIM School, short for the International Language ...

Why does Stanford require its students to study foreign languages? According to the Stanford Language Center, it’s because “Stanford students need to be able to initiate interactions with persons from ...

Spanish remains the language most frequently spoken by English-learners in U.S. schools by a wide margin, with roughly 76 percent of the nation’s 5 million English-learners speaking Spanish, but the ...

Israeli public schools require students to study Arabic, but the instruction is often either poor or doesn’t stick, and most Jews retain none or very little of it. An increasing number, though, are ...

FORT BRAGG, N.C. - Learning another language can be difficult. In the military, Soldiers are often required to familiarize themselves with a foreign language indicative to the region they will deploy ...