This is Encouraging

Inside Higher Ed has a piece today about how more students are studying languages:

Overall enrollments in languages other than English continue their steady climb, increasing by 12.9 percent from 2002 to 2006, with the most dramatic growth seen in the study of Arabic (up 126.5 percent) and Chinese (up 51 percent), according to the Modern Language Association’s survey on “Enrollments in Languages Other Than English in United States Institutions of Higher Education, Fall 2006.”