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Languages of North America

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Enter the school that’s raising the bar for bilingual education

Education

“We need to catch up with the rest of the world,” says a high school principal in Oregon. His school is part of a national push to offer students a bilingual seal on their diplomas.

Summer in the Global Village: LAMC 2013, Part One

Global Hit

The Many Historical Twists and Turns of Spanish

The World in Words
The World

Why I Like Catalan and Don’t Speak it

Arts, Culture & Media
The World

Podcast: A trip around America’s languages

The World in Words

Podcast: Chinese Orphans Catch a Break

The World in Words

Carol and Patrick discuss five language stories in the news including: new naming protocols for Chinese orphans; a Spanish language movie that is barred from competing as a foreign language film at the Academy Awards; and the latest volume of the Dictionary of American Regional English.

The Voice of Iran in Spanish

The World in Words

The Chinese and Russian government-run TV companies have fast-growing foreign language services. Now, Iran has got in on the act. It has launched Hispan TV, a Spanish language service aimed at Latin America.

The World

Studying an Inuit Language Threatened with Extinction

Arts, Culture & Media

We’re heading north for the Geo Quiz this time. Way north, to one of the globe’s northernmost inhabited settlements.

Hablamos Español

Arts, Culture & Media

How many countries are there in the world, where Spanish is an official or national language?

The World

Compensation for E.Coli Affected Farmers

Global Politics

EU ministers propose $200 million compensation to farmers affected by the E.coli outbreak in Germany.