President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday afternoon making English the official language of the U.S. This is ...

I was 3 years old the first time I mixed up Spanish and English. It would not be the last. It was 1975, and my family had recently migrated from Peru to Northern California. Shortly after our arrival, ...

The Trump administration has hopefully just learned an important lesson: the strategic importance of Voice of America’s foreign language services for U.S. national security. After Israel launched a ...

In no time at all, speaking a language other than English in public is going to feel like an act of political defiance. On Friday morning, The Wall Street Journal first reported that the president ...

Columnist, author, and linguist Richard Lederer spent about six months writing his latest book, “American History for Everyone.” That was a lot longer than it’s typically taken him to write his dozens ...

How African American Vernacular English has shaped our country’s language and culture. African American Vernacular English has shaped the rhythm of our country’s language and culture for decades. Yet ...

"Ich bin mied" (“I’m tired”) feels like being tired. "Ich bin müde" (“I’m tired”) feels like remembering the right word, molding my mouth to fit around the odd shape of this slight change to the ...

Viewers who tune into the Super Bowl pregame show on Sunday will be treated to an unusual performance of “America the Beautiful,” which will be told, in part, through Native American sign language.

Welcome to the American Sign Language (ASL) program, housed in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Science at the University of Colorado! We are a vibrant, multicultural, diverse community ...