(Courtesy Judy Bolton-Fasman) Language is blood; language is family. My relatives were among the Cubans fleeing Castro in the early 1960s. They arrived in Connecticut one harsh winter, where my ...

Of the Indian languages, I grew up only speaking Hindi. I had no idea what my family's second, regional language was. When I asked my father, his answer puzzled me. "Sindhi," he said. I had never ...

She's working hard to become fluent in Tłı̨chǫ — a language from the Dene family that's also known as Dogrib — but admits it's a difficult process for many reasons. Explore Indigenous ...

"Thirty years ago, I believed that learning my heritage language would help me reconnect to a part of myself that I valued. Although I had no way of knowing if I was correct in that belief, my ...

Despite growing up in a non-Welsh speaking household, with his great-grandmother being the last Welsh speaker in his family, he developed an interest in his heritage and the language while ...