Languages

EU chief Jean-Claude Juncker has sparked demands for an apology in Belgium after claims he made to local media about observing a decrease in linguistic tolerance in towns on the country's coastline.

Judges overturn earlier ruling that banned parents from officially naming their child Fañch.

A new report says France has the lowest level of English proficiency of any European Union country, while Swedes were ranked the best internationally.

An Italian publishing house is using street graffiti in a bid to save lesser-used words from extinction and help bring them into popular discourse.

On the European Day of Languages, a new report has found just eleven EU countries are teaching 90% or more of their students in lower secondary education a second language.

What a piece of seafood tells us about the EU's shared identity.

European students are learning more languages than their American counterparts, according to a new study.

The event sought to offer a “creative way instead of a violent way” of responding to the controversial law, which declared Hebrew the language of the state and gave Arabic a “special status”.

We need new ways of resisting the rhetoric of power addicts in the 21st century.

Less than half of English pupils choose to learn a modern foreign language at school, a new report has found.

French President Emmanuel Macron made a gaffe when he was talking about the wife of Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

The “critical period” for learning a new language is much longer than scientists had previously thought, according to a new study.

'Delicacy and prettiness' are both used in the English definition of the word 'feminine,' whereas in Russian 'readiness for a sacrifice' is employed. How do other Euronews languages define femininity?

Discover how many languages are endangered — or dead — in Europe, as UNESCO reveals its latest findings.

Édouard Philippe’s move follows complaints that a drive for equality is putting the French language in ‘mortal danger’.