By Clarissa Oon & Kor Kian Beng FOR Chinese Singaporeans who had struggled with their mother tongue in school, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew's recent remarks that bilingual education had proceeded on...

By Michael Chee Language is first and foremost a means of communication. Secondly, it is something that allows us to organise our understanding of the world around us. Language involves the use of...

Wes Anderson's adaptation of Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr. Fox is a successful leap into uncharted waters By Sukhdev Sandhu. Wes Anderson; George Clooney; Bill Murray; Rating: * * * * It doesn’t...

There is nothing more infectious than laughter - it can even be transmitted over YouTube. Below we present 20 "corpsing" clips guaranteed to have you giggling at your computer. By Matthew Moore...

Oxford University has chosen the 10 most-hated sloppy idiomatic expressions. The Telegraph reports the most hated phrase was "at the end of the day," while "fairly unique" came in a close second...

Kim Yu-na, after winning the recent ISU World Figure Skating Championships, was praised for her fluency in English in interviews with the international press. The Chosun Ilbo reported that Kim's "English...

The monthly tuition fee for English-language kindergartens is an average of W720,000, triple the cost of ordinary Korean-speaking preschools (US$1=W1,174). Kindergartens where native English speakers...

The millionth English word will be born at 10:22 a.m. on June 10, according to the Global Language Monitor, an organization of academics who research the latest trend of English words. Based in Austin...