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IIE President Allan E. Goodman discusses declining U.S. student enrollment in foreign-language studies. "The U.S. Foreign Service has fewer Arabic speakers than my alma mater has students majoring in film studies," writes Goodman. "While English tends to be the lingua franca there are still many reasons to learn more than a few words from people with whom we share the world."