The ability to speak more than one language is a boon when searching for a job, yet many of Hall County’s bilingual children have trouble overcoming the disadvantages of poverty and delayed English skills.
The ability to speak more than one language is a boon when searching for a job, yet many of Hall County’s bilingual children have trouble overcoming the disadvantages of poverty and delayed English skills.
Hometown Hero nominee Eva Rivera is a bilingual special education teacher charged with helping youngsters break down the language and learning obstacles they face in school.
When El Pasoans in distress dial 911, they can ask for help in English, Spanish or both. To better serve the predominantly Hispanic region, the city has required its 911 call-takers to understand — and clearly and concisely speak — both languages since 1989.
Four hundred years after its publication, Part 2 of "Don Quixote" has been translated into Quechua, the most widely spoken indigenous language in South America and from now on, one of the 70 languages in which the crowning achievement of Spanish literature can be read.
US has 41 million native speakers plus 11 million who are bilingual.
Eréndira?Santillana, a?senior Spanish major at the University of Texas at Brownville, eagerly anticipates spending a month this summer in historical and picturesque Alcalá de Henares, Spain, the birthplace of Spanish?writer?Miguel de Cervantes, author of “Don Quixote.”
The Livermore Public Library will present Cascada de Flores bilingual storytellers on Wednesday, July 1, 2015 at 2:30pm at the Rincon Branch Library, located at 725 Rincon Ave., Livermore. Cascada de Flores is one of a variety of free performances offered during the library’s 2015 Summer Reading Program.