A glance at some of the new words included in the latest University of Chicago Spanish Dictionary would make you think editor David Pharies didn’t have to work very hard. The words “CD,” “fax” and ...

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 ...

The post by Juan Arellano was originally published on the blog Globalizado. Quechua, the language of the Inca Empire, has had nearly 500 years of contact with Spanish, so it makes sense that each ...

In Miami, Spanglish is just life. Sometimes you can’t help throwing in a Spanish word or two because it just feels right. But the truth is that Spanish has so many great words that English doesn’t ...

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 ...

DEAR GABACHO: On one hand, I can point to Latin—show that esposas is the feminine plural of esposo, which comes from the Latin sponsus (same root word for “spouse”), which comes from the Latin ...