US: Soldiers and diplomats still lack language skills

[Francis Hult]

The Washington Post

 

Soldiers and diplomats still lack language skills

 

Can we talk? 

 

Not if it's a foreign language, according to government auditors, who issued a highly critical review of national security agencies' programs Wednesday. 

 

Tucked deep into the Government Accountability Office report was a brief, disparaging passage on the foreign-language capabilities at the departments of State and Defense. 

 

The language situation was not only not improving, it said, it was going backward.

 

Full story:

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/spy-talk/2010/06/gao_soldiers_and_diplomats_sti.html

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