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 ...
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 ...
2004-12-12 04:00:00 PDT Los Angeles-- When Spanish actress Paz Vega landed in Los Angeles in October to begin work on her first American movie, she didn't know one word of English. The resulting sense ...
At the Lower East Side Preparatory High School in New York, it's not unusual to hear different languages flowing in the classroom — in one sentence. “Mira, mira guey, I don’t understand la tarea,” — ...
Unless you speak Spanish, you might not be aware of the controversy over Spanglish, a broken mix of Spanish and English spoken wherever you see Latinos these days--in the barrios of the Bronx, Spanish ...
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 ...