The Charleston Gazette-Mail – – Eric Migernier 
We have all heard the old refrain: Why should I learn a foreign language? I am never gonna use it. Why is there a foreign language requirement for my son in college? He is never going it to need it. Besides the fact that this premise might not be entirely right in an increasingly multi-lingual global world where, exposure to a foreign language can give anyone competing for a job a shot in the arm, there are other reasons for wanting and needing to learn a foreign language. Think of all the elements that counter learning in a traditional classroom today: the passivity, the yawns, the boredom, the stress, the sheer lack of pleasure that typically engulfs students and erects a wall between them and the teacher.(more)