ST. CLOUD — Move over, Spanish and French. St. Cloud public schools next year will be offering Somali and Ojibwe to all students as elective languages. "It just makes sense for us to have it," said ...

For weeks now, Sakarie Hassan has come home from kindergarten at Sullivan STEAM Magnet School eager to tell about the words he's learning to read in Somali, the language he speaks at home. He'll greet ...

The Twin Cities metro is home to one of the largest Somali populations in the country. Now, Minneapolis Public Schools is launching a new course that spotlights the Somali language and culture. "I ...

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — In a landmark move, Normandale Community College in Bloomington became the first community college to offer a full five-course Somali Area Studies Program. Classes began for the ...

Fifteen Hmong Educators earned their Minnesota K-12 World Languages & Cultures teaching license with an emphasis on Hmong language and culture from Concordia College in Moorhead. CATHY WURZER: You ...

Minnesota is home to a high degree of linguistic diversity, with dozens of languages represented in the St. Cloud area.

Create an account or log in to save stories. CATHY WURZER: This is a Somali lullaby from an elder in Minnesota that Marian Hassan recorded for a new project she's working on. She spent her career ...

NORTH MANKATO, Minn. (AP) - A diverse set of foreign languages are taught at area colleges, but until last month they didn’t include one of the languages most frequently spoken in the region. Students ...

My mom, my Hooyo, has a special way of teaching you so much about the world and so little about herself. She tells you the parts of her life that are going to push you to succeed the way she did, ...

Somalia is to introduce Swahili, the lingua franca of East Africa, to its national curriculum, the president has announced. English is used as the language of instruction for most subjects nationwide ...

KZYS, also known as St. Cloud Somali Community Radio, launched its new website this spring after joining forces with Project ...