Many of us have had the experience, when sitting in a foreign language class or visiting another country, of fumbling for the words to convey our thoughts. In a brilliant essay from his book Me Talk ...

Not long after Dena Hammad started her first year as parent liaison at Bennett Elementary School in Prince William County, Virginia, the school conducted a community survey. The responses indicated ...

PITTSFIELD — At a community center in downtown Pittsfield, a man tries to make sense of the English word in front of him. “Yo,” he says finally, pronouncing as he might in Spanish. “Yo? ‘Yo’” (the ...

There are days when Tammy Barberena has to rely on her middle school-aged son to understand how he’s doing in school. Barberena, who speaks Spanish, struggles to communicate with teachers and staff at ...