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The Tongue-Tied American: Confronting the Foreign Language Crisis by Paul Simon For as long as I can remember, foreign languages have been a part of my life. As an undergraduate student, I studied eight of them. I took this to be a personal interest, and nothing more. Then, in the early 1980's, I read The Tongue-Tied American. Congressman Paul Simon convinced me with this book that knowledge of foreign languages in our country is not simply a matter of interest; it is, in a broader context, an issue of national security importance. Although his statistics are dated, Simon's arguments are even more vivid for me today than they were twenty years ago: lack of foreign language skills in the United States represents a national crisis. I still find Simon's prose today both fascinating and frightening. -- Pete Smith |
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