The sky above was a brilliant blue, with puffy clouds, as I crossed the courtyard of Vilnius University on my way to Yiddish class.

Bilingual Birdies is a foreign language education program that uses music to help children learn. They're planning a trip to Kenya to help students there learn English through song.

Occasionally, emotions that we can't identify well up within us, causing us to experience confusion over how to react.

All I have is English. I tell the teachers I wish I had another language, that I wish my children could have learned a language in primary school, like the children in India do. "But your accent is perfect," says one teacher. My American ummms, likes, and tendency toward hyperbole seem far from perfection to me.