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Contents Next >|| |Volume 22, No. 1||Fall/Winter 1998| At a
national town meeting held in September 1998, Senator Paul Simon
challenged attendees to become advocates for early foreign
language learning. He called on each member of the audience to
speak with five other people about the benefits of early
language learning and to create language education advocacy
groups in their communities to help prepare young Americans for
the next century. Language students from the Washington area
gave personal accounts about why they liked learning languages.
The meeting, Preparing Young Americans for the Next Century:
Foreign Language and Early Education, was hosted by the National
Foreign Language Center at t