If you think language lessons are about learning grammar and lists of words by rote, think again. Amsterdam language school ...

The Amish population in North America nearly doubles every 20 years, according to a 2023 study by Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College. This suggests the number of ...

Many people falsely assume Pennsylvania Dutch was historically spoken only by Old Order Amish and Mennonites, said Bradley K. Smith, archivist and associate director of the Berks History Center.

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With some 130 million monthly users, the language-learning app Duolingo alone shows people’s hunger to learn new languages. But group courses guided by a teacher are still going strong. Dutch language ...

It’s a language that was a cornerstone of life for European immigrants and is still spoken fluently in thriving Amish and Mennonite communities across North America and beyond. Longtime Lehigh Valley ...