The U.S. is behind and is falling behind in global education skills, including being multi-lingual. This portends a future where the U.S. may be less influential in the world.
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Industry travel partnerships aim to make language learning more accessible
Several travel businesses have partnered with well-known language learning businesses to help travelers pick up some language skills.
Continue readingLanguage Learning Resources
Studying languages on our own, without the guidance of a teacher, is hard!
For best results, you will want to use multiple learning resources – do not rely on just one.
In this section, I describe tools I have found useful.
Continue readingA language joke
I am struck by how “global” many young people are – they have traveled much and many have lived in multiple countries by the time they are in college.
Many of these students speak multiple languages, some times fluently.
This reminded my wife of an old joke: What do you call a person who speaks only one language?
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