First Person

I Heard That

In Westwood, Mandarin speakers use their native tongue when they're angry.

Cancer in Chinese

After starting chemotherapy, I was desperate to find someone who could speak to the doctor.

Stranded off Venice

I found out how it feels not to speak the majority language abroad, then at home.

News: Pasadena Dual Immersion, Mixtec Stumps Police

Quotable

News: L.A. Unprepared, Online Chat Interpreter

Two Performances, One Stage

In the kid-friendly production "Stories by Shel," Deaf West Theatre takes advantage of different aspects of stage communication to reach both hearing and deaf audience members.
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Tattoos We Get, and Don't

Coming into contact with languages we don't speak means making mistakes, say local body artists and their patrons.

Manufacturing 'Authentic' Talk for Film

"The Exiles" combines the spontaneous with the premeditated, creating its own special language from the mouths of Native Americans in Bunker Hill. The quasi-documentary is set for DVD release in spring.

FAQ: Building a Weekend School for Spanish

Rey Rodriguez couldn't find a quality Spanish-language school for his sons, so he teamed up with like-minded parents in Pasadena who had already founded their own, as a Sunday language school.

His Kind of Spanglish

A Nuyorican comedian's book on the language hybrid is a defense of verbal redundancy motivated by double belonging. Bill Santiago calls Los Angeles the "promised land" of Spanglish.

Speech of the Young'ns

From "Ace" to Z, students collect elements of UCLA speech for course credit. The words come from afar and go way back.