Heading out on a nature walk near their Carbondale, Colorado, home, Rachel Mulry and her three kids review some words: verde (green), naranja (orange), rojo (red). The family is learning Spanish ...

I’m no longer certain of where my own faded memory ends and my father’s recollection begins, but he describes it this way: When I was a little girl - 4 or 5 years old - and did not want to be left ...

The author, right, with her sister, left, and her mother. Her mother was graduating with her master's degree in Spanish literature. (Courtesy Judy Bolton-Fasman) Language is blood; language is family.

Louise Gleeson’s kids call each other out when someone’s acting like a “quallum,” offer a heartfelt “ozee-chicken” in response to a bad hair day, and perk up when their grandmother is on her way with ...

Decisions about using more than one language in the family in one generation will affect generations to come, as research has shown. I also know this from personal experience. As my family and I ...

Some 1.5 billion people across the world speak one of the Sino-Tibetan languages, a family of languages linguists believe originated in Asia almost 6,000 years ago. The Sino-Tibetan family is made up ...

The Sino-Tibetan language family consists of more than 400 languages spoken by around 1.4 billion speakers worldwide, including major world languages like Chinese, Tibetan and Burmese. However, ...

UNESCO has designated Dec. 15 as World Turkic Language Family Day for the promotion of a common language, culture and documentary heritage of Turkic-speaking states. In Uzbekistan’s historical city of ...