Language Tutors are here to support all modern and ancient languages offered at Bates, including Latin, Ancient Greek, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, German, and French. We try to have both ...

Why learn a new language? Should students do it for a Harvard language citation? For a study abroad program? For job opportunities at international companies? For fun? The answer to all of these is ...

How would you define the word cute, as in 'your child is cute”? Could you explain the idiom, 'It's raining cats and dogs,” to someone who doesn't speak English? Linda Merritt's students often ...

Duolingo, the popular language-learning app, has launched Duolingo Max, a new subscription tier that includes a virtual language tutor powered by the recently released GPT-4 AI model, TechRadar ...

For all their hype, chatbots kind of suck right now. Not necessarily because they’re fundamentally bad, but because it’s often apparent a good old app or website is more convenient and reliable. But ...

Baer faced these same cultural barriers living in Naples, Italy, for three years while her husband was stationed there in the Navy. The experience motivated her to later become a volunteer tutor at ...

These days, when someone starts to suggest that “soon” or “one day” things will “go back to normal,” they inevitably stop themselves and let their statement trail off into the ether. Normal, we have ...