When you see Japan’s PISA scores and world ranking, you might be impressed by Japanese education’s success in the world. But when you look at English test scores, Japan’s scores are less impressive ...

English, whatever its merits as a language, is a bitch to spell. There are so many rules, and so many exceptions, and yet in the end you have to learn a lot of words on a case-by-case basis. If future ...

My career in journalism has been varied and wide-ranging. I’m an author, a documentary maker, a reporter, and my work has sparked four commissions of inquiry in Canada. My touchstone in journalism has ...

Tonal languages are different from non-tonal languages because tonal languages are dependent on the emphasis and pronunciation, because how a word is said will affect its meaning. It is quite ...