I grew up with two languages, with my mind shifting back and forth. We spoke English at home because my parents wanted my sister and me to be proficient in the dominant idiom of this new country.

After hundreds of years of disruption, displacement, and colonial violence in Indonesia, I’m learning Dutch. Rudimentary, garbled Dutch, but Dutch nonetheless. Three generations ago, my ...

NASHVILLE -- -- NASHVILLE -- The first time the Rev. Dwight McKissic ever spoke in tongues, he was a seminary student, praying on his knees in his dorm room. "Strange sounds begin to come out of my ...

Another prolific writer actively promoting writing in his mother tongue is award-winning author Sabata Mpho Mokae. Purely ...

FORT WORTH - A debate has intensified over whether Southern Baptists should approve of speaking in tongues as an expression of religious devotion following a sermon at Southwestern Baptist Theological ...

Although I now speak and think in English, my first words were not in this language. I was raised by a village of relatives; as a result, I grew up speaking in a patchwork of Cantonese, Mandarin and ...

A Capital Region native who graduated from Shaker High School and UAlbany now is closing in on 4 million followers across his social media platforms. His schtick? He videochats with people across the ...

Rick Dempsey explains how his decades of localization expertise is being applied to The Chosen. In 2014, Disney released a video of Elsa singing her hit “Let It Go” in 25 languages. If you didn’t know ...

What precisely is language, and how did humans acquire it? In an effort to answer those essential questions, this program journeys back to prehistoric times in search of language's origin. Additional ...

ROCHESTER — When Manasa Yerriboyina started school, she spoke very little English. For years, she was hesitant to express herself at all for fear of being bullied for her Indian accent that she had up ...

The UA hosted the 2010 Southern Arizona Language Fair, a coalescence of language and cultures, for students from kindergarten to college. Schools from all around southern Arizona came to the UA to ...