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Making Strides to Recruit Doctors Fluent in Spanish
By Miriam Jordan, Staff Reporter, from The Wall Street Journal Online
Hispanics constitute 14% of the nation's 300 million people, but only 5% of U.S. practicing physicians. New approaches can help.

A Career in Languages Translates Into Success
By Kris Maher, Staff Reporter, from The Wall Street Journal Online
With many areas of the country experiencing shortages of interpreters and translators, government agencies and companies are trying to fill in the gaps by hiring people with high-level language skills to help with everything from fighting terrorism to multicultural marketing to courtroom interpreting

To Get Ahead in the U.S., Aprenda Español
By Louis Nevear, New America Media
The more Latinos embrace speaking English and move away from Spanish, the greater the obstacles they encounter in their careers.

House for Sale: In Your Language
By Adam Smith, Sampan
Asian immigrants in Massachusetts find robust niche market in real estate

Difference as Advantage
By Chandra Prasad, IMDiversity Special Contributor
Minority professionals don't have to abandon their unique cultures, values, languages, and ideas in order to get ahead.  Indeed, maximizing the benefits of your cultural identity and language skills on the job can give you an edge and make good business sense.

Bilingual Non-Profits Help Women Immigrants in Business
By Peter Micek, New America Media
Bay Area group has helped create more than 130 new jobs since 1999; coached women in practices

The Next Generation of Hispanic TV is in English
By Richard D. Hoffmann, Hispanic Magazine
Back in the 20th century, if you were Hispanic and wanted to watch television, you watched news, variety shows and telenovelas (soap operas) on the local Spanish-language channel. Today, English-language programming for Hispanic television audiences—particularly the brand-conscious younger generation—is offering an alternative.

High School Senior Puts Bilingual Skills to Use
By Caroline Aoyagi, Pacific Citizen
‘Your Memoir,’ a volunteer, non-profit organization, helps translate memoirs for elderly Japanese Americans who want to leave a legacy for posterity

China to Fund Program to Encourage Americans to Study Chinese
By Barbara Schoetzau, VoA News
Hanban, China's National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, and the College Board, a U.S. group, launch five-year initiative to encourage the study of Chinese language and culture in U.S. elementary and secondary schools

Preserving Our Languages

Commentary: Dear Arnold: Immigrants Do Want to Learn English
By Domenico Maseri, New America Media
“You’ve got to turn off the Spanish television set,” Arnold Schwarzenegger stated recently at the National Association of Hispanic Journalists convention, many of whose attendees write for Spanish-language media. According to California’s governor, that’s the key to learning English.

American Indian Youths Preserve the Past One Word at a Time
By Shadi Rahimi, Pacific News Service
Though only a few elders of the Big Valley band of Pomo Indians are still fluent in their language, young tribal members are picking up words and phrases with the help of technology

On Raising Bilingual and Multilingual Children (Series)
By Frances Kai-Hwa Wang, Asian American Village Contributing Editor
Multipart series gives practical lessons, tips, and tools from parents of young and grown children on how to raise your child bilingually or multilingually.

Lost in Translation? No Translation Necessary!
By Frances Kai-Hwa Wang, Asian American Village Contributing Editor
Series Continues: A mom's personal notes on the importance of traditions, raising multilingual children, and the joys of getting the joke

Commentary: Discrimination Spoken Here
By Cecilia Munoz, New America Media
Latinos are especially subject to accusations of not wanting to learn English, even though the 2000 Census tells us that, of the households who say they speak Spanish at home, more than 70 percent reported speaking English “well” or “very well.”

America Is Me, and So Is My Accent
By Angel Luna, Pacific News Service
After years of embarrassment, a young Mexican American finally learns to appreciate the way he speaks English.  Besides, he writes in this personal opinion essay, what makes you think you don't talk funny?

Going Back to Chinese School
By Frances Kai-Hwa Wang, Asian American Village Contributing Editor
Fifteen years after her escape, Frances finds herself in (once-dreaded) Chinese School once again with her own children

A Media of One's Own

Univisión Debate Reveals Latinos’ Power
By Roberto Lovato, New America Media
Spanish-speaking Latino candidate Bill Richardson looked like he’d swallowed a big burrito when asked en Español: “Would you be willing to promote Spanish as the second official language of the United States?”

Hispanic Radio Stations Go Spanglish
By Tiffany Rainey, Hispanic Magazine
No need to cringe when you can’t think of that exact word anymore. With radio’s hottest new stars, Pitbull and Daddy Yankee, perfecting their own brand of Spanglish on stations nationwide, being bilingual has become not only normal but necessary.

Boston Korean Community Gets New Newspaper
By Adam Smith, Sampan
Community now has a new local newspaper, thanks to Myong Chang, age 37, who recently launched The Boston Korean.

Navajo Language Lives On at Salina Bookshelf
By Daniel Kraker, VoA News
When most American teens are consumed with pursuits like school, sports and video games, the Lockard twins were starting a business. Today, Salina Bookshelf remains the country's only bilingual English-Navajo publisher, and one of very few companies publishing in any Native American language.

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