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Those looking at the history of foreign-language education in the 20th century and the methods of teaching ( such as those related below ) might be tempted to think that it is a history of failure.

Very few students in U. S. universities who have a foreign language as a major manage to reach something called " minimum professional proficiency ".

Even the " reading knowledge " required for a PhD degree is comparable only to what second-year language students read and only very few researchers who are native English speakers can read and assess information written in languages other than English.

Even a number of famous linguists are monolingual.