Forbes – Niall McCarthy 
Learning a foreign language comes with many benefits, whether it’s the ability to converse with people during a vacation abroad or making a jobseeker more marketable to potential employers. While language-learning is commonplace across Europe, the situation is completely different in the United States. Many European countries have national-level mandates for studying languages at school but these standards don’t exist on the other side of the Atlantic. In most cases, any formal requirements only exist at school district or state-level. That glaring disparity certainly shows when it comes to the share of primary and secondary level students studying languages in the U.S. and Europe. (more)