Demand soars for Arabic speakers
"Just as Sputnik spurred a surge in Russian language training a half-century ago, Sept. 11 has made Arabic the language of choice for a new generation of ambitious diplomats and academics across the world.'Looking around, we see that we haven't been training enough qualified Arabic speakers,' said Ahmad Fawzi, director of the news and media division of the United Nations in New York. 'The language has been neglected.'
Others agree. 'Even in France, with a large population of bilingual Arab speakers to draw from, it has not been easy to find possibilities to study Arabic,' said Philippe Cardinal, chief of communications at the Institut du Monde Arabe, the Paris-based cultural center supported by France and 21 Arab governments.
That is changing rapidly." (More...)
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