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I just bet you had absolutely no idea that the U.S. Senate Cheap Taco Charlton Jersey , on February 17, 2005, declared this the "Year of the Foreign Language Study". You didn't know, did you? Ah ha! I knew it!


It is true.


The year, 2005 Cheap Michael Gallup Jersey , was the official Year of Foreign Language Study. And it is about bloody time, I would like to add. In case you are wondering why your elected officials bothered with passing this resolution, on taxpayer's time and money, it is because most of America is afflicted with a dreadful and painful lack of foreign language ability.


This, my foreign-language-illiterate fellow American Cheap Leighton Vander Esch Jersey , is because we have this disorder (and this is true) called, xenoglossophobia'the fear of foreign languages. Moreover, in America it is, and always has been, a chronic case!


Before 1923 Cheap Demarcus Lawrence Jersey , 22 states in America had laws prohibiting the teaching of foreign languages. Is that xenophobic (having abnormal fear or hatred of the strange or foreign) or what! It was in 1923 when the Supreme Court overturned this silliness


However, by 1954, 56% of the U.S. high schools did not even have foreign language courses available to their students. Of those who did, only 14.2% students enrolled in foreign language study.


This was all due to America's abnormal fear of the strange or foreign as applied to foreign languages?xenoglossophobia! Tell me if you have ever, in your life Cheap Amari Cooper Jersey , heard this one:


"When those Mexicans come to American they should have to learn how to speak English."


I wish I had a dollar for every time I heard this. I know you have heard it too, so don't deny it!


Well folks, many Americans who move to (or even just visit Mexico) do not bother to learn Spanish. One could make the case that if you were just a tourist that you could squeak by with pointing, grunting, and making loud gaseous sounds.


However Cheap Dak Prescott Jersey , if you are going to move here, why in God's name don't you learn Spanish?


Excuse: xenoglossophobia!


Now you have this real excuse to blame for your total lack of linguistic skills in Spanish. But know that it not only hurts the feelings of the locals that you come to their country and don't learn their language but the Mexicans see the hypocrisy in that you expect something out of them, when they expatriate to America, that you are not yourself willing to even try when you move to Mexico.


Just explain to your Mexican housekeeper xenoglossophobia?I am sure she will understand.


In America, the situation is getting worse even today. In a 2002 story by Patrik Jonsson for The Christian Science Monitor Cheap Ezekiel Elliott Jersey , it was reported that the states of Georgia, New Jersey, and the school district in Denver either had waived or were in the process of ending a foreign language requirement for high school graduation.


I contacted all of these school districts. Only Denver responded. They said,


"I have checked with several counselors. At this time, we cannot think of any district in Colorado that requires Foreign Language (particularly in the Metro area). That's not to say there isn't a small district somewhere that requires it."


There you have it--xenoglossophobia at its best. Or Cheap Emmitt Smith Jersey , should I say at its worst?


The solution?


"Foreign language learning is not something that happens overnight; it takes a commitment of time and money. U.S. schools compound the problem by waiting too long to start foreign language instruction. According to ACTFL Professional Programs Director Elvira Swender, U.S. students often start learning foreign languages at puberty, "an age at which their brains are least receptive to language learning".


Swender also notes the relative unimportance that schools assign to languages. "It doesn't occur to anyone that we should wait to teach students math", she points out, "so why do we wait with foreign languages?"


You should not dismiss this issue of Xenoglossophobia. There is a real and unacknowledged fear of foreigners in American culture. I see this all the time in the people I talk to. I am a syndicated columnist and book author and am constantly being deluged with reader's comments. Some are not so nice. I get a sense from the hundreds of column reader's responses I receive that not just Xenoglossophobia is a real problem Tony Pollard Jersey , but Xenophobia in general is alive and well in America.


At the writing of this article, the Minuteman Project Movement is growing leaps and bounds that will, in my view, cause an even large isolationism from Mexico. I do not know but maybe it will even go back to the days when learning a foreign language will be outlawed or at least dropped from the school's curriculum all together. Anything is possible and stranger things have happened.


The main reasons I think people who would really like to learn Spanish, but who do not Connor McGovern Jersey , are those who suffer from Xenoglossophobia. These are people who would love to learn Spanish but do not because of their fears of second language acquisition. They are just plainly and simply afraid. I think that fear works out in some of the following ways:


?They think that they will not be able to master the thousands of vocabulary words required for communicating in the language.


?They are terrified at the thought of having to learn grammar rules. I mean, who wouldn't be? Can you imagine anything more boring?


?They are afraid that they are too old. They are convinced that had they started as a child they would have had a fair shot at mastering Spanish. They think their learning curve is retarded because of their age.


?Here is the BIG ONE: They are scared to death of making a fool of themselves.


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