Professor Morford says signers are like English learners whose first language uses a different alphabet.

VOA: special.2011.04.13

Songs teach language. Consider a song like "Tom's Diner" by Suzanne Vega.

VOA: special.2011.01.06

When the program launches in the Philippines in a few weeks, a farmer can call a toll-free number and hear a recording in his or her language that sounds something like this.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

Director Roxana Silbert, "What's great about what we're doing is it allows them to come to it in their own terms and of course the thing that young people find most alienating about Shakespeare is the language, which feels like a different language to them and this isn't in anyway attempting to copy Shakespeare's language - it's written by young people in a language they would use."

VOA: standard.2010.05.07