From chemistry-request@ccl.net Thu Jun 11 16:18:59 1992
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 92 10:21:42 -0400
From: Scott Gregory Flicker <flicker@engin.umich.edu>
To: chemistry@ccl.net, cjcramer@crdec6.apgea.army.mil
Subject: Re:  Deeper issues
Status: RO

I don't really what to widen this issue of foreign language requirements
but I wondering how many chemistry departments require foreign language
fluency as part of the graduate program.  I myself am in a department
that droped language requirement (I guess long ago).  Most of the I
know hear have had languages either in high school or undergraduate
and have totally forgotten them out of nonuse (this doesn't my friends
from foreign countries who have learned many 
I agree that if educators what students to really learn a foreign language
than it should be taught at the elementary school level.  Here in the
us there is almost no incentative for anybody to really know a language
well enough to communicate.  

Scott