Language Cycles

How can our brain understand different languages? Help us find out!

Have you ever wondered how our brain can learn and process different languages?

Which properties of the brain limit our ability to understand language? With this app, we investigate this for 25 languages.

Please help us—run two simple experiments on your smartphone. You will listen to a short excerpt from the all-time classic "The Little Prince" in your native language and answer simple questions. All you need to help science is your mother tongue and a little time!

Available languages:

Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese