> Do we really need to teach French to undergraduates that won't ever use it... As most US universities and colleges currently teach? Certainly not. If we were

> Do we really need to teach French to undergraduates that won't ever use it... As most US universities and colleges currently teach? Certainly not. If we were to teach it as most language schools and most european universities teach it. Then, yes. It would be another skill. I took courses in Mandarin. While my spoken language is certainly rusty at this point it gave me an insight into East Asian history and culture that I would not have today.