Some schools in the US have decided to introduce Hindi as a foreign language with staples like French, Spanish and German. “We’re going to teach our kids how to speak important languages. We will welcome teachers here to help teach our kids how to speak languages,” US President George Bush had said during a National Security Language Initiative in New York.
With an initial budget of $114 million, this initiative aims at helping more Americans to become multilingual. Arabic, Mandarin, Russian, Persian and Hindi are all “important languages”. Instructors are being recruited to teach these from kindergarten right up to the university level. In India, the recruitment process is being facilitated by an arm of the human resources development ministry, called EdCIL (Education Consultants India Limited). [Read full story]
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