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Of all the skills that a person could have in today's globalized world, few serve individuals – and the larger society – as well as knowing how to speak another language.
People who speak another language score higher on tests and think more creatively, have access to a wider variety of jobs, and can more fully enjoy and participate in other cultures or converse with people from diverse backgrounds.
Knowledge of foreign languages is also vital to America's national security and diplomacy. Yet, according to the U.S Government Accountability Office, nearly one in four Foreign Service officers do not meet the language proficiency requirements that they should meet to do their jobs.
Despite all these reasons to learn a foreign language, there has been a steep decline in foreign language instruction in America's colleges and universities. Researchers at the Modern Language Association recently found that colleges lost 651 foreign language programs from 2013 to 2016
The advice to learn foreign languages has been repeated for decades, but how much does it really help native speakers of English, professionally, to learn other languages? Additionally, does the decline of language courses at traditional schools reflect cheaper, better alternatives online?
(Score: 5, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday February 07 2019, @04:54AM (2 children)
A total bitch :) I will eat you alive, manlet. Run! Run for the hills! The Nasty Woman (TM) is here! Our actual "tranny degenerate" thinks I'm a TERF, so there you are. Maybe you should try and arrange a date with her? She likes men, for some unholy reason...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 07 2019, @09:04AM (1 child)
Seriously, manlet, you should be seriously afraid. You will not stand a chance. Your manhood will be ground up by the deficiencies of your arguments, and feed to fishes. You will find yourself hiding behind the apron of your mother/sister/nurse/dominatrix because you are not enough of a man to stand up on your own, and so your attacks on women are in fact your refuge in women that you are dependent upon. You will not be able to form a relationship, with anyone, let alone an actual female. Your only friends with be on Gab and World of Warcraft, and they will all be of the age of a Runaway1956, with similar cognitive deficits. Run now, manlet! Let it go! Save yourself!
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 07 2019, @09:10AM
He can't. Mummy's nowhere near, he doesn't know where to run, he's totally paralyzed and his pants are wet.