13 July 2008

How Many Can Walk The Talk?

[Steve Sailer] @ 11:57 pm [Email author] [Email this article]  [Print this article] [Print this article]

Does anybody know of any reliable statistics on what percentages of American adults who don’t have family members who are native speakers of a foreign language or who haven’t lived abroad can carry on a conversation in a foreign language? In other words, what percentage of American adults who learned a foreign language solely through the American educational system have maintained this skill into adulthood?