About half of U.S. Latinos who don’t speak Spanish well say they have been shamed by other Latinos for it, a Pew Research Center survey has found, though 75% of all Latinos say they can speak the ...

Does someone have to speak Spanish in order to be considered Hispanic? Most Latinos say no – but at the same time, they think it is important that future generations of Hispanics do speak the language ...

Mr. Stavans is a consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary. He is the author, most recently, of “The People’s Tongue: Americans and the English Language.” Spanish speakers across the Caribbean ...