Spanish remains the language most frequently spoken by English-learners in U.S. schools by a wide margin, with roughly 76 percent of the nation’s 5 million English-learners speaking Spanish, but the ...

Cairo — Economist Riham Shendy started collecting children's books when she was expecting her twins. An Egyptian married to a German and living in New York, she was determined to teach her children ...

Students in this course will develop their skills in speaking, hearing, reading, and writing Modern Standard Arabic, the form of the Arabic language shared by all Arab countries. The course covers ...

I was extremely nervous to begin studying Arabic at Georgetown University. Like most people who study Arabic, I had some valid concerns about learning a language radically different from my first ...

Arabic has become a much more widely spoken language in the United States in recent decades. The number of people ages 5 and older who speak Arabic at home in the U.S. rose from 215,000 in 1980 to 1.4 ...

CAMP BLANDING JOINT TRAINING CENTER, Fla. (Nov. 4, 2009) - Nawal Al-Saedi knows that words can cause death. She knows the slightest gesture, misinterpreted, can turn a peaceful meeting into something ...

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Every month or so, computer scientist Ramsey Nasser gets a desperate email from the Arabic world, or sometimes China, or Russia, asking for his help. They want to know more about Qlb — pronounced ...

Marivi Howell-Arza dreams of becoming a social worker for Arabic-speaking refugees. They remind the Duke University student of her mother, who fled Cuba in the 1960s. Howell-Arza feels an affinity ...

A man lambasted a department store employee for speaking Arabic, saying Arabs should “go back to where they came from.” “I really walked into a Twitter video irl today,” tweeted a man named Ricky on ...