Picture this: A group of nonnative English speakers is in a room. There are people from Germany, Singapore, South Korea, Nigeria and France. They're having a great time speaking to each other in ...

This essay is a Cover Story selection, a weekly feature highlighting the top picks from the editors of America Media. How do you conduct a “conversation in the Spirit?” At last year’s Synod on ...

There was once a time when strangers talked to one another, sometimes eagerly. “In past eras, daily life made it necessary for individuals to engage with others different from themselves,” Paula ...

“He made a party to celebrate his son’s birthday.” These phrases might sound off to the ears of most English-speaking Americans In Miami, however, they’ve become part of the local parlance. According ...

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Spanish is often framed as both essential and deeply rooted in Miami, a necessity to “get by” living in the 305. In certain ways, it is. In other ways it is not, says FIU sociolinguist Phillip Carter.