If we want more Americans to be successful and to be able to compete in the global marketplace, we must teach them cross-cultural skills and more foreign languages earlier, not less later.
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With one stroke of an official pen, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper signed a bill giving life to teaching Native American languages that now, as world languages, can count for high school credit.
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A bilingual parent tries to keep a native tongue alive at home, a problem faced by many immigrants. 
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By Michał B.Paradowski Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw Photo Credit: Anthony Kelley To have another language is to possess a... Delete the scoop?
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If we want more Americans to be successful and to be able to compete in the global marketplace, we must teach them cross-cultural skills and more foreign languages earlier, not less later.
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Madame Dr. Joan Jensen, Chatham Middle School French teacher, would like to congratulate Keegan McManus and Conor Sullivan, two of her seventh grade French students, for winning First Runner-Up in NJ in the “World Languages Podcast Competition”... Delete the scoop?
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Every Thursday evening, a group of about 10 students gathers at Houma's Bayou Terrebonne Waterlife Museum with workbooks and hefty language dictionaries. Delete the scoop?
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Some language departments are having students Skype with their counterparts abroad. Delete the scoop?
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Either way, the brain seems to consolidate new language over time, researchers find... Delete the scoop?
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Dr. Judy Willis (@judywillis on Twitter) is an authority on brain research as it relates to learning. She is a regular blogger at Edutopia. You can also find her online at RADteach.
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Twenty-year-old Alex Rawlings has won a national competition to find the UK's most multi-lingual student, he explains how he became fluent in so many languages. Delete the scoop?
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When God put the kibosh on the Tower of Babel, 72 languages were said to have been created from the one that unified those hubristic humans. Delete the scoop?
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