Last April, the University of Southern California announced plans to eliminate its German department, stating that it wanted to shift resources away from European languages to Asian languages like ...

This article was originally published in The Conversation. When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, on Oct. 4, 1957, it did more than spark fears about America’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Between 2009 and 2021, nearly 30% fewer college students enrolled in a foreign language course. FatCamera/E+ Collection/Getty ...

Enrollments in foreign-language classes at American colleges and universities have jumped 13 percent since 2002, with Arabic and Chinese showing the most dramatic increases, according to a report ...

Signs written in Spanish are posted in a second-grade bilingual class at Farmers Branch Elementary School, which serves a predominantly Latino, low-income population in Farmers Branch. Despite our ...

Students in Europe learn foreign languages in school at a much higher rate than their American counterparts. They also tend to learn more languages throughout their education due to national mandates.