{"id":276278,"date":"2026-06-19T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/artificial-intelligence-and-foreign-languages-why-learning-languages-matters-more-than-ever\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T14:55:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T18:55:16","slug":"artificial-intelligence-and-foreign-languages-why-learning-languages-matters-more-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/artificial-intelligence-and-foreign-languages-why-learning-languages-matters-more-than-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence and foreign languages: why learning languages matters more than ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

Artificial intelligence and foreign languages: why learning languages matters more than ever<\/a><\/p>\n

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There is a misunderstanding that needs to be cleared up straight away. When we say \u2018artificial intelligence\u2019, we are using a term that creates a misleading parallel with human intelligence. The word \u2018intellect\u2019 derives from the Latin *inter-legere*: to read between the lines, to grasp the deep connections between things. AI, however powerful, does not read into anything: it recognises statistical patterns, produces probabilistic responses, and excels at repeatable, well-defined tasks. But it stumbles over irony, ambiguity and double negatives \u2013 over everything that makes human conversation something irreducibly complex. Intelligence, in the full sense of the term, is something else entirely: it is the ability to grasp the meaning of a context, to read the relationships between things, and to act judiciously in the face of uncertainty. As Father Paolo Benanti has observed, the Greeks already distinguished between metis \u2013 practical intelligence, the kind that finds solutions to problems \u2013 and nous, the intelligence capable of grasping the meaning of the whole. AI excels at the former. The latter remains human, multifaceted, capable of moving in multiple directions. So, is artificial intelligence really intelligence? The question is not an idle one, especially for those who work with languages.<\/p>\n

It is commonly believed that translation is one of the activities most vulnerable to automation and therefore most easily replaceable by AI. This oversimplification confuses lexical transposition with linguistic comprehension. Translating means immersing oneself in the context of a conversation, deciphering cultural codes, reading between the lines of non-verbal communication, and adjusting one\u2019s tone to suit the interlocutor. No probabilistic model, however sophisticated, can replace this form of relational intelligence. It can support it, but not replace it.<\/p>\n

The real issue is not about replacement but about enhancement. At the Stanford Institute for…<\/p>\n

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