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Your child knows English. So why are they afraid to speak it?

Knowing English and speaking it are different skills. Here’s how confidence, conversation practice and the right learning environment can help children become fluent speakers.

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ULPAN LA-INYAN instructor Moshe Shmuel teaches basic Hebrew; teacher, trainer & educational program developer Tali Itzhakov (below) works with a student.

Putting conversation first: Jerusalem ulpan founder reflects on 18 years of teaching Hebrew to olim

The leumi app is available in 5 languages.

Banking made more accessible, in every language

AI English-learning startup Loora founders CEO Roy Mor and CTO Yonti Levin.

Israeli AI English-learning startup Loora raises $22m. in Series B


Israeli start-up wins biggest ed-tech competition in the world

Israeli ed-tech company Storywizard won the award for its use of AI in the field of education.

From left to right: Nadav Yaron (Chief Product Officer of Storywizard), Ogden Mors (new CEO of Storywizard), Avi Warshavski (CEO of MindCET), Ofir Kerker (CTO of Storywizard)

Breathless burdens: Coping with pain


How a new genetic tool can help you track ancient relatives

The researchers applied "ancIBD" to ancient genomes from across Eurasia and found hundreds of previously undetected pairs of relatives.

 Excavation of a Yamnaya kurgan by the YMPACT team of the University of Helsinki in cooperation with the Prahova County Museum of History and Archaeology in Boldești-Grădiștea, Romania.

Artificial intelligence can predict events in people’s lives and even their deaths

A Danish study analyzed registry data on residence, education, income, health, and working conditions to make predictions with high accuracy,

 WORKS  BY Eliran Jan, Karen Knorr and Pavel Wolberg are part of ‘The Language of the Liminal’ at the Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art.

Can artificial intelligence predict what's going to happen in your life?

Protecting sensitive data, preserving privacy, and addressing biases in the data are challenges that must be tackled before models like this can be deployed.

 WORKS  BY Eliran Jan, Karen Knorr and Pavel Wolberg are part of ‘The Language of the Liminal’ at the Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art.

My Word: A time, a place, and a word for it

I don’t seem to have lived my year on the same page as the Oxford wordsmiths, and perhaps we live in a parallel universe.

 THE POST-OCTOBER 7 ‘word of the year’ is ‘Together we will win.’

Boost your vocabulary throughout your life – not just in school – to become a better reader

Vocabulary is something you have to work on your whole life, stressed Sigmundsson. “We have to work on our vocabulary from birth, throughout our school years, and really our whole lives.”

 Books that have been donated to the "Read with Love Book Drive" run by PFLAG Bucks County to help place LGBTQ+ books in Bucks and Montgomery County libraries are placed in a donation box at the Doylestown Bookshop in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, U.S., April 7, 2023.

The history of war idioms and expressions

Let’s take a look at some idioms related to battle and see what they mean and how they originated. 

 An illustration by Gregory Zaboly depicting William B. Travis drawing a line in the sand.

'Dee Inglish Revolooshon': Changing the spelling of the English language - review

A new book describes a revolution in the English language, changing it for sound-based spelling.

The Union Jack, the flag of the United Kingdom.

Oxford University Press announces Word of the Year 2023

This year's winner means to have "style, charm, or attractiveness; the ability to attract a romantic or sexual partner.”

 What is it that makes people fall in love?