If designed sensibly, the infusion of federal funds for foreign language study will be a net gain for the country.
Inside Higher Ed :: Millions for 'Strategic' Languages: "President Bush is expected to tell dozens of college and university presidents tomorrow of an administration plan to spend hundreds of millions of additional dollars on training in foreign languages deemed critical to the United States. Arabic, other Middle Eastern languages, and Chinese are expected to be a focus � potentially providing for a significant expansion of study by American students, who are notoriously monolingual."
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