Adding foreign language skills to your resume is a surefire way to boost your value to potential employers. The demand for people who can speak and write in multiple languages is increasing rapidly across a variety of industries and careers, and workers with bilingual proficiency enjoy the benefits. 
People of all ages and cultures gesture while speaking, some much more noticeably than others. But is gesturing uniquely tied to speech, or is it, rather, processed by the brain like any other manual action? 
In this country, there is a definite stereotype as to what a Spanish speaker is supposed to look like. The erroneous belief seems to be that only people with dark hair, dark eyes and tan skin speak Spanish.... 
Veteran education reporter Lesli Maxwell has worked both inside and outside of major school systems. Join her now as she delves into the educational, policy, and social issues surrounding English-language learners in U.S. 
Being bilingual, it turns out, makes you smarter. It can have a profound effect on your brain, improving cognitive skills not related to language and even shielding against dementia in old age. 
It is possible for adults to process a language the same way a native speaker does, and over time, the processing improves even when the skill goes unused. 
It is one of the general misconceptions in translation practice that translation is bilingualism and that every bilingual individual is automatically a translator. 
This single word is the one that non-Spanish speakers always ask me about the most. It never fails. As soon as language comes up as a topic of conversation. 
Experts say the interest in dual-language programs now is driven by an increased demand for bilingual and biliterate workers and by educators who see positive impacts on academic achievement for both English-learners and students already fluent in English. 
Are Some Brains Better at Learning Languages? 
Would you like your marketing messages to reach Latinos in the United States? It may not be as simple as translating content into Spanish. 
Timothy Doner, 16, a high school sophomore in Manhattan who taught himself over a dozen languages, found a vibrant subculture of polyglots on YouTube. |
What a majority of the country's population spoke English in 2007, data reveals that the population that speaks a language other than English has been increasing for the past 30 years. 
According to new data released by the UIS, literacy rates for adults and youth continue to rise. Young women aged 15-24 are making the strongest gains, but still lag behind young men. In 2010, 87% of female youth had basic literacy skills, compared to 92% of males. Overall, more than half of countries with data have youth literacy rates of 95% or higher. 
Spanish has given me: An ear for the rhythm of the spoken word 
When people consider a problem in a foreign language, they are more likely to take favorable risks and make more rational decisions—a finding that could have implications for business in a global economy 
Mandarin is slowly becoming the second language of business, according to not one, not two, but three articles in The New York Times over the weekend. 
In the late eighteenth century, the British orientalist Sir William Jones (see portrait) became one of the first linguists to realise that many languages, spread astonishingly wide from India to Ireland, had similarities that indicated a common origin, and to posit that they had all descended from a lost language, Proto-Indo-European, the closest to which is now Sanskrit. 
By the time you reach adulthood, learning a foreign language is a struggle – even after you memorize grammar and vocabulary, there's no guarantee that you'll understand a fast-talking native speaker, and when you stop studying for even a month, you seem to forget everything you'd learned. 
Foreign languages should be compulsory in primary and secondary schools, a House of Lords committee has said. 
On this day in 1839, the initials "O.K." are first published in The Boston Morning Post. Meant as an abbreviation for "oll correct," a popular slang misspelling of "all correct" at the time, OK steadily made its way into the everyday speech of Americans. 
Raising Multilingual Children (or Not)New York Times (blog)Actually, despite my sarcasm, I'm appreciative of his efforts — any American who has traveled overseas knows that if more of us spoke a second language, we'd have, if nothing else, a better... 
“Our research suggests that English proficiency gained at the expense of native-language fluency may not be beneficial for overall health status,” says Ariela Schachter, an alumna of Rice University who is now a graduate student at Stanford University. “It’s very important for the immigrants to hold on to their native language in addition to learning English.” 
Learning a second language is never easy for the simple reason that it is exactly that – a second language. Ninety-nine percent of the time and, of course, barring the … |
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