At Coral Way Elementary School in Miami-Dade County, students take classes in Spanish in the morning, then switch to English in the afternoon.
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2 Languages, Many Voices: Latinos In The U.S. Latinos make up America's largest minority group — more than 50.5 million and growing. A Morning Edition series looks at the ways Latinos are changing — and being changed by — the U.S.
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2 Languages, Many Voices: Latinos In The U.S.
Latinos make up America's largest minority group — more than 50.5 million and growing.
Four's The Score: One of a handful of performers to score an EGOT — an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony — Rita Moreno is revisiting the highlights and lowlights of her life and career in a new solo show.
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A sign spells out Se Habla Espanol (Spanish Spoken Here).
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Girl in a Coma performs in both English and Spanish — though none of the members is fluent in the latter.
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Natalie Ochoa (left) and her mother, Betty Ochoa, say that services at the New Life Covenant church are less formal than those of the Catholic church they once attended.
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Malin Alegria lives in San Jose, Calif., where she teaches and writes.
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A Spanish-language pamphlet for Cingular phone-rate information is displayed in a Cingular store in Elmhurst, Ill. Cingular announced in 2006 that it was converting 420 of its stores to "a bilingual concept," with both English and Spanish phone information and payment options, and bilingual staff members.
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Desi Arnaz, seen in 1955, was one of the first characters to speak Spanish on English-language television.
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Movie star Salma Hayek poses with "Dora the Explorer" during a 10th anniversary event last year. Dora, voiced by Caitlin Sanchez, is only one of the most recent Latino stars in a long history of Latinos on television.
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Jose Zacarias lives in an old farmhouse flanked by corn and soybean fields near the edge of town. The Mexican-born immigrant came to West Liberty more than 25 years ago.
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