Nestled on her soft brown couch with bright red, pink and yellow spools of yarn scattered around her, Melany Cristobal is in her element. A Spanish language show blares on the TV across from her, younger...

A buttery smell wafts out of the kitchen from spaghetti and clams cooking on the stove. Shouts of cooks and servers fill the kitchen, hurrying everyone along to get food out to customers. Dirty plates...

While many of us struggle to master one language --English-- Gloucester High School sophomore Rihanna Leina has nearly learned four. A native Haitian Creole speaker, she’s also fluent in Spanish and...