One recent Saturday morning inside a small storefront classroom in Long Beach, preschoolers, toddlers and their parents bounced along to a Spanish-language song. Afterward, they talked amongst ...

I was born and raised between constant hugs and kisses, some scolding, and many songs. Some of my first and most beloved memories, those that have marked me most, are musical and projected in the ...

A traveling teacher brings Spanish instruction to preschoolers around the peninsula. “What does ‘hola’ mean, everyone?” Kristi Jackson asks her group of students. They all respond: ” ‘Hola’ means ...

Families of different nationalities meet once a month at St Kilda Public Library in Melbourne to listen to children's stories in Spanish. One of the volunteers, Mexican storyteller Daniela Robles, ...

I grew up believing you couldn’t be a Latino — not a “real” one, anyway — without speaking Spanish. It’s what as a child I was told again and again by my immigrant parents. It’s what I must’ve heard ...