In the west African country of Cameroon, it’s not unusual for youngsters playing a neighborhood game of soccer to encounter different languages among their friends. And throughout Africa, it’s not uncommon for people to speak three languages — even if they don’t write or read all three. How do they…

Summer travel advisory: If you’re traveling abroad on vacation, using buds of bilingualism may be the surest way to elevate your status from tolerated tourist to valued visitor. Read on… None of us can master every language, but we can all learn phrases that extend a symbolic hand in greeting…

In 2005, North Carolina had seven dual-language schools; in 2018, there were 140. A 2018 graduating class at one of these dual-language high schools had two valedictorians — one a native Spanish speaker and the other a native English speaker, both now fluent in the other’s native tongue. How did…

This is the fifth episode in the America the Bilingual podcast series on some of the finest summer language immersion programs. It takes us to Université Sainte-Anne in the tiny village of Church Point, Nova Scotia. A French immersion summer program, it is Canada’s most popular and attracts many students…

While bilingual schools for spoken languages are becoming more popular in America, fewer children are attending bilingual schools for signed languages. What does that mean for deaf children who should be learning ASL — American Sign Language — as their first language, and at a young age? …

Aziz Goumi (left) helps Steve interview Mohamed El Kachir (center),who speaks Tamazight (pronounced “Amaziri,” and also called Berber) as his native language. He also speaks Arabic, French, Spanish and English. In the United States, we hear periodic news reports about people being accosted for speaking another language in public. In…

On September 11, 2001, the value of knowing another language was probably the last thing on the minds of most Americans. …

In our continuing series of dual language summer immersion programs, in Episode 37 of the America the Bilingual podcast, we learn what it means to “live the language” at Concordia Language Villages — from learning opera in Italian, soccer in German, volleyball in Spanish, and French while waltzing with mops. …

Episode 36 of the America the Bilingual podcast: A Tidal Wave of Love — The John Rassias Legacy In our continuing series of episodes featuring the most well-known summer language immersion programs in America, in Episode 36 we travel to Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, home of the famed Rassias…