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Renewed interest in heritage languages
The New York Times reports on the availability of language classes in Tagalog, Vietnamese, Korean, Arabic, and Mandarin for "heritage speakers."
Researchers at U.C.L.A. and Portland State University in Oregon estimate, however, that about half of the college students in the United States who are taking classes in Korean, Vietnamese, Hindi and Tagalog, one of the main languages spoken in the Philippines, are heritage speakers. (ELHAM)
May 9, 2007
