How to find affordable English lessons and manage the pressures of acculturation.

Learning English is a step that many immigrants take to better navigate American culture. Alisa Takeuchi, who teaches English as a second language at Garden Grove Adult School, said her students often ...

Here are some tips on how to overcome both of these hurdles. USA Learns, a website funded by the Sacramento County Office of Education, has been offering free English learning courses since 2008.

Although some immigrants try to learn the language by listening to the radio or watching TV in English, others want a more structured approach.

Partly inspired by their immigrant parents, two New Jersey high school seniors founded Words Beyond Worlds, a free English as a Second Language program that is run with the help of about 60 fellow ...