Sara Lopez, 24, didn’t learn Spanish from her parents because they didn’t want her to go through the discrimination they faced for speaking the language back in the 1980s. “Their teachers were mostly ...

Priscilla Blossom, a Nicaraguan- and Mexican-American, grew up speaking Spanish but felt pressured to assimilate and would sometimes only communicate in English. Now as a mom, she worries that her son ...

I grew up believing you couldn’t be a Latino — not a “real” one, anyway — without speaking Spanish. It’s what as a child I was told again and again by my immigrant parents. It’s what I must’ve heard ...

Raising a bilingual child in the United States requires much deliberate effort, since English surrounds nearly every ...

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Learning Spanish is a stimulating process that opens you up to a whole new world. Maybe you’re marrying into a Spanish speaking family and want to learn the language to foster more intimate ...

When publisher Karen Pavlicin began receiving requests for Spanish-language children’s books from military family support centers, librarians and educators, she began looking for ways to fill that ...

Hope Gomez heard stories growing up about her Mexican American grandmother getting hit for speaking Spanish at school, a punishment dispensed by American teachers to force Latino students to speak ...