NPR Short Wave host and reporter Emily Kwong is a third generation Chinese American, but she's never spoken her family's language. Until now. At age 30, she's trying to learn the language for the ...

PRINCETON, N.J.—Non-native speakers exposed to English before moving to America are more likely to use the language in their daily lives in the United States, according to a report led by Princeton ...

In Yüksekova district, a panel organized by a Kurdish language association on Monday undermined the liaison between Kurdish language and history, saying that Kurdish people kept their language despite ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post Jeanette Vizguerra is pictured at the First Unitarian Church in Denver on Feb. 16. The mother of four, who is facing ...

Franklin believed the immigrants were “generally of the most ignorant, stupid sort of their own nation” and thus unable and unwilling to learn English. “As few of the English understand the German ...

CHICAGO Back in the mid-1700s, German immigrants were the bane of my favorite founding father, Benjamin Franklin, who believed they'd never assimilate into the predominant culture of the time.