It’s presentation day in a fifth grade classroom at Vang Pao Elementary School in Fresno, and some students are more shy than others. But 11-year-old Irene Her stands in front of the classroom, ...

STEVENS POINT – A new year-long elective class aimed at helping Hmong students connect to their heritage launched this year at Stevens Point Area Senior High. The class is focused on teaching students ...

As Annie Vang developed her mobile application that helps 4,000-plus users learn Hmong, she drew from her experiences as a child with immigrant parents whose language existed only orally until the ...

If you find yourself in Jenny Yang’s third-grade classroom at Vang Pao Elementary in southeast Fresno, you’ll hear students recite the Pledge of Allegiance in the mornings in the Hmong language. When ...

'The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival' by Lisa Hamilton was translated into Hmong and turned into an audiobook for Hmong speakers who can't read the language. EMILY BRIGHT: If you ...

Words like “peace” and “mercy” are vital to talking about Christianity. They’re just two of many English words that seem to defy precise translation as an evolving Episcopal congregation tries to ...

When Bouasvanh Lor would come home to Merced from college at CSU Stanislaus, her parents would pretend they forgot English to force her to practice Hmong, the family’s mother tongue. Back then, she ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. | Words such as “peace” and “mercy” are vital to talking about Christianity. They’re just two of many English words that are proving difficult to translate smoothly as an evolving ...

A lot of people assume that Seng Vue, a member of the Henry High School’s Asian Cultural Club, is fluent in Hmong, but she says she’s not. “We have to speak ‘Hmonglish,’” Vue said of herself and ...