The World from PRX

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Iraqi fiction writer Anoud recently moved to New York.
Books
2017 feels almost as strange as this writer’s dystopian vision of Iraq in 2103
Kimberly Medina, 19, votes during the U.S. presidential primary election at Gates Street Elementary School in Los Angeles, California, on June 7, 2016. Californians will vote Nov. 8 on a ballot measure that seeks to overturn a ban on bilingual education.
Education
Should kids be learning in more than one language? Californians just decided “yes.”
Pregnancy
Science
Our ability to speak doesn’t begin with our first words. It begins in the womb.
Yowei Shaw and her grandpa
Education
Help! I can’t communicate with my Mandarin-speaking grandpa
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Education
Parents and students rallied to keep this indigenous language school open
Le Rencontre, a French-speaking meetup at the Franco-American Heritage Center, Lewiston, Maine.
Arts, Culture & Media
In Maine, a little French goes a long way
A tilde added to the sign for the N subway line in Sunset Park, a heavily Hispanic neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York.
Arts, Culture & Media
Ride New York City’s N train, with a Spanish twist