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Hey, it's Major. The team is taking some time to slow down as we ramp up for back to school,

whether we're students, teachers, parents, or just, you know, students of life.

In the meantime, we're featuring some favorite episodes from this season so far.

We'll be back with new episodes Monday, September 16th. I'm Major Jackson and this is the slowdown. Over dinner, a colleague suggested that universities were justified in cutting language

programs. English is the linguifrenka of business, they said. Why should American students study a language they are not likely to use?

For all sorts of reasons, my jaw dropped, my fork hung midair. I was shocked, mainly at the explicit cultural hegemony that informed his perspective.

The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that by 2019, 651 foreign language programs

had been cut from college curricula over a three-year period.

I didn't need the report to witness what I've seen firsthand.

The teaching contracts of colleagues who taught Italian, Polish, and Arabic

languages not being renewed. This is so different from previous generations of

college administrators who thought that a well-rounded education

included the ability to speak a non-English language.

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