Penn State Professor of German and Linguistics Michael Putnam has spent a good part of his career thinking about language attrition, or "language loss," among bi- and multilingual speakers. Now, it's ...

Bilingualism has always been a major part of my identity. I grew up in Madrid, so Spanish is my native language, but my father enrolled my brothers and I into a school that spoke predominantly English ...

The first language a person learns is known as their native language and is usually a major part of their identity, shaping their earliest thoughts and connecting them with their culture and heritage.