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I think this is a fantastic idea -- and not just for good business reasons but for cultural literacy as well. As it is, this nation is too insular in an increasingly interwoven world.
There's another thing: we should stop talking about Spanish as a "foreign language." What's foreign about a language that's been spoken in parts of the United States since the sixteenth century? Oregon's students should be learning English and Spanish as our native languages...AND they should learn a foreign language.

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