Latinas + Language Issues Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)

November 9, 2009

Republican Debra Medina says she’ll be the first candidate in the 2010 Texas governor’s race with Spanish-language TV ads.

August 27, 2009

Can the U.S. government take a woman’s baby from her because she doesn’t speak English? That’s the latest question to arise in the hothouse debate over illegal immigration, as an undocumented woman from impoverished rural Mexico — who speaks only an obscure indigenous language — fights in a Mississippi court to regain custody of her infant daughter.

August 4, 2009

She Made ‘Hispanic’ Official – A Conversation With Grace Flores-Hughes, Hispanic wordsmith

June 3, 2009

How To Pronounce Sonia Sotomayor’s Name

September 5, 2008

Under increasing criticism, the LPGA Tour on Friday backed off plans to suspend players who cannot speak English well enough to be understood at pro-ams, in interviews or in making acceptance speeches at tournaments.

August 19, 2008

Phonetic or Pathetic? Grading My Garmin on Its Spanish

June 2, 2008

Interpreter has her say in court – Marta McCoy

May 9, 2008

Did You Know? The majority (55%) of all Hispanic women report that they speak only English in their home or that they speak English very well. Most of these English speakers are native born. Seven-in-ten (73%) immigrant Hispanic women report that they do not speak English in their home or that they do not speak English very well.

April 8, 2008

Myrka Dellanos Is Married and on Her Honeymoon!

March 6, 2008

America Ferrera’s bad Spanish costs her movie role

November 28, 2007

Hispanic unity offers ‘determined mother’ ticket to better life – Hollywood, Florida

November 13, 2007

Biding their tongues – Cuban-born Maria Carreira is a professor at Cal State Long Beach. She has a finely honed sense of Spanish-English etiquette that leads her to use Spanish sparingly in public, unless she is approached in that language.

August 20, 2007

GO-O-O-O-AL for Latina girls – Summer camp overcomes cultural barriers to playing ‘a man’s game’ – North Carolina