Communication between people who don't share a language can prove challenging. Learning a new one is an option, but that's a time-consuming and potentially costly solution. Besides, what if you just ...

One Sunday, at one of our weekly salsa sessions, my friend Frank brought along a Danish guest. I knew Frank spoke Danish well, because his mother was Danish, and he had lived in Denmark as a child. As ...

Sometimes you don’t realize what you’ve been missing out on until it finally happens. For me, it was hearing my Chinese mother tell me she loved me for the first time. I was 39 years old. A language ...

For my Chinese immigrant family, television shows offered a way to convey the things we couldn’t express directly because of language, cultural or generational differences. By LiAnne Yu When I was 8, ...

Literary translator Sean Bye invites us into his process – and talks with fellow translators from Polish, including Marta Dziurosz, David French, Scotia Gilroy, Karen Kovacik, Antonia Lloyd-Jones and ...