In these days of online and AI learning, the Dutch Brainwash course is decidedly (and purposefully) old school. Here’s why ...

Whenever Esmée van der Hoeven’s students learn that she teaches Dutch language at both Stanford and UC Berkeley, the inevitable follow up question is: “Which school do you like more?” “I always answer ...

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 ...

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.