America the Beautiful is now America the Bilingual. In just two generations, the number of bilingual people in the U.S. doubled to an estimated 23% of the population, according to the U.S. Census ...

Most of us have had one of those moments – when an English word just doesn't work for the message you're trying to get across. Comedian and Huffington Post blogger Bill Santiago has written a book ...

When José Medina was a kid growing up in Texas, teachers stopped him from speaking Spanish in their classrooms. And his parents stopped him from speaking English at home. Medina never felt like he ...

Jill Kitson: Welcome to Lingua Franca. This week: Spanglish: a new American language or a mishmash? In the last of four programs, Robert Dessaix grapples with the lingua franca of Hispanic Americans.

World Book Day celebrates both authors and readers, and one Mexican Jewish author and scholar has an idea to mark the April 23 literary love fest. He suggests reading a classic from another culture ...

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