When Monika Megyesi was growing up in Romania during the despotic reign of President Nicolae Ceausescu, she remembers her mother speaking of the United States as a land of opportunity. Today, like ...

Actually using a foreign language is among the best ways to learn one, and Coe and Cornell colleges believe they've found a way to help students do that while also serving the wider Cedar Rapids and ...

Colleges hope the nation’s global war on terrorism will translate into more Congressional support for programs that finance and encourage the study of foreign languages, especially those spoken in ...

IOWA CITY — The University of Iowa’s largest College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is expanding the pathways to fulfill its world language requirements to give students more flexibility, despite ...

For 67 years, the Department of Education has administered grants to universities to create centers devoted to foreign languages and area studies, a field focused on the study of the culture of a ...

One of Indiana University’s oldest foreign language programs was abruptly put on hiatus, with no indication of when — or if –— it will resume. The Honors Program in Foreign Languages (IUHPFL) is an ...

BRATTLEBORO -- Elsa Borrero, coordinator of the foreign language program for the Windham Southeast elementary schools, has not yet taught her young students how to say "budget cuts" in Spanish. But if ...