[EDLING:1814] New urgency to learn Chinese

[Francis M. Hult]

New urgency to learn Chinese

After years of insisting that the world speak English, of grants and 
initiatives that established foreign language programs in fits and starts, 
Americans have awakened to a far more global playing field and the need for 
specialized languages, economists say. And nowhere is that more evident than 
with China.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14521977/from/ET/