Languages are typically taught by first exposing you to reading and writing, but native speakers always start learning languages by hearing and talking. Speak has built a platform to teach languages ...

RIGA, Latvia — Contemporary Russian music is the rage in Latvia’s capital, but when listeners tuned in for their daily dose of dance tracks on a popular radio station, they got nothing but dead air.

The Constitutional Court of Latvia ruled against a challenge to a law that converted Russian-language schools to Latvian. It stated that the decision to make the school language Latvian was valid ...

IT WAS AS though the communities lived both on top of each other and entirely apart. Andrejs Vasiljevs, who runs a digital-translation company in Riga, recalls the divided schedule of his school in ...

Journal of Baltic Studies, Vol. 42, No. 4 (DECEMBER 2011), pp. 447-463 (17 pages) This paper highlights some peculiarities of the nation—language conflation in Latvian linguistics and traces their ...