This could leave you at a loss for words. A New Zealand man has won the Scrabble world championship for Spanish words — despite not speaking the language. Nigel Richards — who now holds an impressive ...

Victory is always glorious, but it has a singular sting for Spanish athletes who stand up to receive their gold medals and championship trophies: their national anthem has no lyrics. “For years we’ve ...

America’s love of Mexican food has implanted plenty of Spanish words into our everyday lexicon. But when not ordering a quesadilla or tamale at the local taquería, we may still be using Spanish words ...

If you speak Spanish or have tried to learn it, then you know there are so many freaking words! But although the language has a vast (endless, it seems) array of terms and phrases that mean the same ...

Linda Duann Rodriguez, on the cusp of her freshman year at East Central High School, has grown up speaking, reading and writing English and Spanish at home and at school on the South Side. As one of ...

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If you’ve lived in San Antonio long enough, you know that the city functions in Spanglish. While some full-on Spanish is more dominant in some communities and English in others, it’s not uncommon for ...

My earliest relationship with language was defined by rules. As an immigrant who came to this country from Peru at age 4, I spent half of my days in kindergarten occupied with learning the rules of ...