Barack Obama Contends That Americans Need To Master A Second Language
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s recent comment that Americans should get their children to study Spanish or another second language has drawn an avalanche of criticism from English-only advocates and cable television anti-immigration zealots.
But Obama couldn’t have been more right. Whether it’s Spanish, or other languages, Americans are way behind the rest of the industrialized world when it comes to mastering other languages.
Speaking in Georgia on July 8, Obama said in response to a question on bilingualism, ‘We live in a global economy. And, you know, I don’t understand when people are going around worrying about, `We need to have English-only.’ They want to pass a law, ‘We want English-only.’ ‘’
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