With some 130 million monthly users, the language-learning app Duolingo alone shows people’s hunger to learn new languages.
At one time in the Lehigh Valley, many people spoke the Pennsylvania Dutch dialect. There were sections of the paper devoted to the dialect, and speakers gathered at Versommlings and Grundsau Lodsch ...
GRAND RAPIDS (WZZM) -- King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima of the Kingdom of the Netherlands are visiting West Michigan Tuesday. This is the couple's first visit, but it's not the first time Dutch ...
When Bart Nawijn decided to create an online Dutch course for people aiming to pass their integration exams, he remembered being a confused foreigner learning French years ago. “I put myself in the ...
MIDDLEBURY — “I was like a baby when my parents left the Amish (church), so I don’t even remember it,” Dan Byler said. Growing up in a Mennonite church, Byler’s family continued to speak the ...
The Amish population in North America nearly doubles every 20 years, according to a 2023 study by Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College. This suggests the number of ...
Lillian Geisler, a native of Millersville, Pennsylvania, graduated in 1936 from Millersville State Teachers College where her father was the chef at the college’s dining hall. When she accepted a ...