“Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York” by Ross Perlin
Years ago, as a youngster, Ross Perlin “longed for other languages.” In his lifetime, he tried Spanish and French, Latin and Old Norse, Russian, Arabic, and Mandarin until eventually, after traveling the world and listening, his yearning took him to the Endangered Language Alliance of New York. Perlin is now a codirector there, where a […]
