Are enough native-born Americans learning to speak a foreign language?

Uplifting Languages

The Next American, by Stephanie Czekalinski July 23, 2012

 

Speaking more than the mother tongue has advantages beyond upward mobility in a nation that lags in multilingual fluency.

For years, the politics of language in the U.S. have revolved around a single question: Are enough immigrants learning to speak English?

But in an increasingly globalized economy, some experts wonder whether the nation should ask the opposite question: Are enough native-born Americans learning to speak a foreign language?

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