The future depends on embracing languages From: denverpost.com

In any event, the U.S. will one day come to be a predominantly Latino country. This is seldom disputed across the political aisle. Where liberals and conservatives are divided is on the issue of whether this is a bad thing.

This is where the role of language enters in. English has done an excellent job (nefariously or not) of spreading itself across the globe. There’s nothing wrong with that, really, even from the standpoint of multicultural preservation. We forget that the human brain is capable of so much more than is ever demonstrated in an average lifetime. With that said, foreign people can learn English in the interest of global understanding and still retain their native languages.

Great. But why don’t we ever apply that axiom to ourselves? Worldwide, Spanish is the second most-spoken language by native speakers, Mandarin being first. The reason for it? Communicative integration. “*

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