Spanish is often framed as both essential and deeply rooted in Miami, a necessity to “get by” living in the 305. In certain ways, it is. In other ways it is not, says FIU sociolinguist Phillip Carter.

A study of 171 Spanish-English emergent bilingual preschoolers found that most had limited classroom language interactions, with smaller groups engaging more with teachers or peers. Using audio ...

The USA TODAY Network is launching a series on the Latino community in the USA called Hecho en USA, or made in America. Roughly 80% of all Latinos living in the USA are American citizens, but media ...

Like many first-generation Mexican immigrants, Juan Rivera grew up in a home where the family communicated exclusively in Spanish. So when he had his own children, it was important that his home be ...

‘Borrowed translations’ using English words in Spanish forms make for speech that sounds slightly off to outsiders, study says Few would doubt Fidel Castro’s 1959 revolution in Cuba transformed the ...

When Spanish meets English, new dialects emerge – giving us real-time insight into language evolution, linguists say. "Vamos de punches punches punches", Yamilet Muñoz texted her friends in Austin, ...