Uplifting Languages
Richard A. Bloom
Speaking more than the mother tongue has advantages beyond upward mobility in a nation that lags in multilingual fluency.
For years, the politics of language in the U.S. have revolved around a single question: Are enough immigrants learning to speak English?
But in an increasingly globalized economy, some experts wonder whether the nation should ask the opposite question: Are enough native-born Americans learning to speak a foreign language?