When José Medina was a kid growing up in Texas, teachers stopped him from speaking Spanish in their classrooms. And his parents stopped him from speaking English at home. Medina never felt like he ...

Here at the clinic we have English only speaking employees and bilingual (English & Spanish) speaking employees. There seems to be some tension going on because the bilingual staff are talking to each ...

I recently had a conversation with a client about the Mexican hires we had helped them recruit. In my experience with recruiting foreign talent for U.S. companies, employers are often looking for cost ...

Does someone have to speak Spanish in order to be considered Hispanic? Most Latinos say no – but at the same time, they think it is important that future generations of Hispanics do speak the language ...

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.

Growing up in Stockton during the 1970s, Bill Esparza’s father forbade him from speaking Spanish at home. His father, he said, grew up in an era where signs like “No dogs or Mexicans allowed” hung in ...

Priscilla Blossom, a Nicaraguan- and Mexican-American, grew up speaking Spanish but felt pressured to assimilate and would sometimes only communicate in English. Now as a mom, she worries that her son ...