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    Your Questions About Language, Answered

    As we kicked off our weeklong language series, we asked you what questions you've got on the subject. You responded. Now, we have some answers.
    Jul 20, 2018 3 minutes

    As we kicked off our weeklong language series, we asked you what questions you’ve got on the subject.

    You responded. Now, we have some answers.

    Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson checks back in with Marty Abbott, executive director of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.

    What You Wanted To Know About Language

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