Numbers do not exist in all cultures. There are numberless hunter-gatherers embedded deep in Amazonia, living along branches of the world's largest river tree. Instead of using words for precise ...

If you've ever listened to Spanish and thought some of the words resemble Arabic, it's because there's a millennium-old relationship between the two languages. According to some historians, there ...

From the Amazon to Nicaragua, there are humans who never learn numbers. What can these anumeric cultures teach us about ourselves?

A number of animal words also went directly from indigenous languages into Spanish and then English. “Puma” originated in Quechua (Inca), while “jaguar” comes from “yaguar,” a word of the Guaraní who ...

Spanish is a phonetic language. Learn how to pronounce words in Spanish in this guide for students aged 11 to 14 from BBC Bitesize.

Let us teach you how to use a few Spanish words that have no English equivalent.

Democrats fall flat with ‘Latinx’ language “Why are we using a word that is preferred by only 2 percent, but offends as many as 40 percent of those voters we want to win?” said one pollster.

There are some words that simply feel truer in Spanish than they do in English. I call these home words and heart words because I associate them with the place I most grew up using them: at home ...

Latinos have grown up hearing someone be called "negrita" or "negrito," but the Spanish term, a diminutive of Black, stirs debate over whether it's a term of endearment or a legacy of a racist past.

It turns out, I'm not alone! After polling friends, family, and editors, I came up with 27 English words commonly used in Spanish — some of these will actually shock you. Did we miss any?