Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Growing up as a first-generation Cuban American in Miami, Ismael Llano never thought twice about the way he spoke. “It’s one of ...

The fusion of Latin and Anglo-American cultures in South Florida in the latter half of the 20th century has created a new dialect, linguists say. Known as Miami English, the increasingly popular ...

Pero, like, take a minute and tell me if this makes sense to you. You got to work and got down from the car. You went into your office and put the light. Claro, you had to dim it because it was super ...

“He made a party to celebrate his son’s birthday.” These phrases might sound off to the ears of most English-speaking Americans. In Miami, however, they’ve become part of the local parlance. According ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Philip M. Carter, professor of linguistics at Florida International University, about a new Spanish-influenced dialect of English being spoken in Southern Florida. If you ...

Bilingual Spanish and English speakers make up the majority of the Miami-Dade County population. As a result, phrases like "throw a photo" and "make a party" have become commonplace in the region. One ...

Languages move and inspire UB doctoral student Kristen D’Alessandro Merii. As early as her teenage years, she remembers her fascination with high school Spanish, how she learned “a little of ...

The latest from Curbed Miami... 1) Mi-Ah-Mi: Oye, there's something, like, so totally gratifying about the fact that Miami has its own well established diaaalect of the English language. It's the ...

Growing up as a first-generation Cuban American in Miami, Ismael Llano never thought twice about the way he spoke. “It’s one of those things where if everybody speaks the same way, then it’s not odd,” ...

June 12 (UPI) --"We got down from the car and went inside." "I made the line to pay for groceries." "He made a party to celebrate his son's birthday." These phrases might sound off to the ears of most ...

"We got down from the car and went inside." "I made the line to pay for groceries." "He made a party to celebrate his son's birthday." These phrases might sound off to the ears of most ...