Letters to the Editor: When America blew its chance to be a multilingual country (via latimesopinion )
, pointing out that 78% of U.S. residents speak only English. Although the U.S. doesn’t currently emphasize language learning, for a brief period that was not the case.
While the main purpose was to provide the U.S. with engineering and mathematics experts, it also paid students to pursue foreign languages. I received generous funding to get a doctorate from Stanford in German.I went on to teach German at UCLA and Pomona College totally debt-free. But in 1973, America’s priorities shifted.
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