In a recent New Republic article, John McWhorter tries (but fails) to convince us that learning French is a waste of time. He wrote an almost identical article back in 2010, which I critiqued in the Humanities+ Blog here:
http://humanitiesplus.byu.edu/2011/04/which-languages-should-the-liberal-arts-be-about-in-2011.html
Business Insider has also chimed in: http://www.businessinsider.com/why-we-still-need-french-2014-2
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