Inside a small school up on stilts, two girls sit at a table covered with flash cards. When asked, the second-graders introduce themselves in French. “Je m’appelle Juliet,” says the one with baby ...

It’s a happy ending for the little school down the bayou. When local officials voted to close Pointe-aux-Chenes Elementary due to low enrollment more than two years ago, it looked like the school ...

Inside a small school down the bayou, southwest of New Orleans, two second-graders sit at a table covered with flash cards. Juliet and Lana attend École Pointe-au-Chien, a new public French immersion ...

Most Louisianans no longer speak French but more and more schools in the state are teaching it. One small school, southwest of New Orleans, is immersing students in the state's local dialects.

Listen close to the New Orleans band Sweet Crude, and you'll hear a linguistic relic from America's deep South. They sing in Louisiana French, a dialect spoken for generations in Louisiana — until the ...

When Taylor Townsend learned she needed four courses in a foreign language as part of her history degree requirements at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, the junior jumped in with both feet ...