Spanish in the United States

This week, my daily news surfing brought me to this article from NPR about the unclear future of the Spanish … Read More

For Valeria Sentillo, conversations with her mom often start in Spanish

MIAMI — Duna Lopez started school in Miami last fall not knowing a single word of English. The 8-year-old girl from Barcelona, Spain, with dark blond hair was placed in the Coral Way Bilingual K-8 Center, the nation's oldest bilingual school.

To provide bilingual education teachers and students with more academic support and stability, Midland ISD administrators have chosen to offer bilingual instruction at only 10 of the district's 24 elementary schools for the 2013-14 school year.

Popular Spanish cartoon character Pocoyo has been enlisted by Hispanic Information and Telecommunications Network to be character in literacy program

South Floridians aren't speaking Spanish so well anymore, and that threatens to become a drain on bilingual business March 2, 2008 By ENRIQUE FERNANDEZ John Echevarría, president of Miami-based Universal Music Latino, had high expectations of the...

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Actor Vin Diesel spoke "lousy Spanish" at the Billboard Latin Music Awards last week, which prompted Code Switch editor Luis Clemens to question the presence of English and poorly-spoken Spanish on Spanish-language television.

The clinic introduced a storytelling campaign meant to raise awareness about Mayo in the Spanish-speaking community.

The way we mix languages and speech patterns is an apt metaphor for the way race, ethnicity and culture intersect in our lives. Introducing our new blog, Code Switch.