For weeks now, Sakarie Hassan has come home from kindergarten at Sullivan STEAM Magnet School eager to tell about the words he's learning to read in Somali, the language he speaks at home. He'll greet ...

The Twin Cities metro is home to one of the largest Somali populations in the country. Now, Minneapolis Public Schools is launching a new course that spotlights the Somali language and culture. "I ...

ST. CLOUD — Move over, Spanish and French. St. Cloud public schools next year will be offering Somali and Ojibwe to all students as elective languages. "It just makes sense for us to have it," said ...

Fifteen Hmong Educators earned their Minnesota K-12 World Languages & Cultures teaching license with an emphasis on Hmong language and culture from Concordia College in Moorhead. CATHY WURZER: You ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. CATHY WURZER: This is a Somali lullaby from an elder in Minnesota that Marian Hassan recorded for a new project she's working on. She spent her career ...

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — In a landmark move, Normandale Community College in Bloomington became the first community college to offer a full five-course Somali Area Studies Program. Classes began for the ...

NORTH MANKATO, Minn. (AP) - A diverse set of foreign languages are taught at area colleges, but until last month they didn’t include one of the languages most frequently spoken in the region. Students ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A Columbus school is celebrating its diverse culture and giving students a bilingual lesson. Every week, Noor Academy teaches students the Somali language and culture. Many of ...

Amal Hussein and Hamdi Mohamed have a lot in common. Both were born in Kenya, where their parents had fled as refugees from Somalia’s civil war, and both came to Boston when they were just a few years ...

My mom, my Hooyo, has a special way of teaching you so much about the world and so little about herself. She tells you the parts of her life that are going to push you to succeed the way she did, ...