New research into how the bilingual brain processes two very different languages has revealed that bilinguals' native language directly influences their comprehension of their second language.

NEW YORK, March 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Author and native New Yorker John DePonte has published Speakening®: English and Spanish for Serious Students, an 83 page book that teaches students of both English and Spanish the sentence structures needed for fluency in these languages in the way that we learn our mother tongue: through conversation.

MONTEREY, Calif., June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- The debate over Arizona's new immigration law, SB 1070, continues to boil and create worry for Spanish-speaking residents who have been the focus of the bill.

Population Speaking a Language Other than English at Home Increases by 140 Percent in Past Three Decades WASHINGTON, April 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The number of people 5 and older who spoke a language other than English at home has more than doubled in the last three decades and at a pace four times greater than the nation's population growth, according to a new U.S.

By Danielle Deaver, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C. Nov. 1--In Gwen Reisman's class at Hill Middle School on Tuesday, eight students searched for verbs. They combed through the words in their workbooks, then raised their hands and hesitantly offered guesses.