Once a week, in the crowded Zoom rooms of Ladies Let’s Talk, an Austin-based nonprofit, female refugees and immigrants living across the U.S. meet to practice English and build community. Here, ...

Focus group moderators asked participants if they were in the process of learning English, and what challenges they faced trying to learn the language. Participants shared various ways they learned or ...

NEW YORK – The actress playing a teenage Jewish immigrant in 1916 never stepped out of character as she talked about the hardships of living in three small rooms with nine family members. Her captive ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. They speak Farsi, Cantonese, Spanish and at least two dozen other languages. Some earned master's degrees in their ...

MINNEAPOLIS - They are the people who clean up after us. The people who anonymously toil through the night in our office buildings and favorite stores. The ones we never meet. So, how about now? "I ...

Recent letters on non-English speaking immigrants beg response. The majority of immigrants want to learn English, desperately. On average, it takes an adult nine years to become competent in a new ...

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