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Biting into foreign tongues Traditional foreign language classes have been stripped from Massachusetts elementary schools over the past decade, forced out by tight budgets and high-stakes testing. Yet, language immersion programs in the elementary schools have made some gains in some area communities, with Maynard planning to start its own program next year. Traditional elementary foreign ...

Schools should keep detailed records of the languages spoken by ethnic minority pupils urges a report.

An L.A. book fair demonstrates the power of Spanish to give a sense of meaning, history and beauty to the lives of those Angelenos who speak it. Deep inside my writerly brain, down where my earliest memories reside, there is a voice. It speaks to me in Spanish.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Workers whose jobs require them to interact with people in foreign countries say that English is the dominant language of business, according to a new poll. More than one quarter of employees in 26 countries around the world told an Ipsos poll that their jobs involve dealing with people in other countries. And of those, two-thirds said that English is the language they use ...

With the fire chief’s limit of 180 people inside the council chambers, almost as many people occupied the foyer and waited their chance to get in, or watched Thursday’s Board of Education meeting on a live feed in two other rooms set up to hold the spillover crowd.

Spanish-language television anchor and producer Frank Cairo faces grand theft charges after police in South Florida say he stole a patio chairs and carpet from a neighbor.

Byron Fija, 42, has an identity crisis. Part of it is his looks. He's Japanese, born to a white American father and an Okinawan mother, a couple who never married, and he seems to take more after his dad. But it's when he speaks that people are really taken aback.

A significant portion of books geared toward teens contain curse words strong enough to earn a movie an R rating, new research finds.

English language learners gathered at the Lincoln Community Center in Mankato Thursday to show what they’ve learned in the past eight weeks.

To introduce and promote bilingualism for children, Language Advantage is giving away a NO COST five week foreign language program to qualified child development, daycares and schools in Maryland.Annapolis, MD (PRWEB) May 16, 2012 To introduce and promote bilingualism for children, Language Advantage is giving away a NO COST, five week foreign language program to qualified child development ...