The tongue is a muscle. Like any other muscle in the body it can be trained to become stronger and to move around the formation of sounds accurately and quickly. A lazy tongue means that your speech ...

Don’t blame me if this week’s column is a bit technical. It’s by popular demand. No fewer than five readers have written to question the statement in my column of November 10 that “classical Hebrew ...

Ever wonder how your brain distinguishes all the sounds in a language? How does it know “b” is different from “z”? Researchers may now be closer to understanding how the brain processes sounds, or at ...