{"69575":{"#nid":"69575","#data":{"type":"news","title":"President Obama Speaks on the Importance of Foreign Languages","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAt a Town Hall in Atkinson, IL, last week, President Obama\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2011\/08\/17\/remarks-president-town-hall-meeting-atkinson-illinois\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ereferred\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to the importance of learning a foreign language for all Americans, as it makes student more employable and competitive in the global economy:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI will tell you, though, just in case there are any French teachers here or foreign language teachers, having a foreign language, that\u2019s important, too.\u0026nbsp;That makes you so much more employable -- (applause) -- because if you go to a company and they\u2019re doing business in France or Belgium or Switzerland or Europe somewhere, and they find out you\u2019ve got that language skill, that\u2019s going to be important as well.\u0026nbsp;And we don\u2019t do that as much as we should; we don\u2019t emphasize that as much as we should here in the United States. (Applause.)\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Foreign language skills make one \u0022employable\u0022"}],"field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27800","created_gmt":"2011-08-23 16:26:43","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:09:59","author":"Jimmy Kriigel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-08-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-08-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.alliance-exchange.org\/policy-monitor\/08\/22\/2011\/president-obama-importance-foreign-languages","title":"President Obama on the importance of foreign languages"}],"groups":[{"id":"1297","name":"Office of International Education"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4696","name":"foreign language"},{"id":"1394","name":"international education"},{"id":"166843","name":"Study Abroad"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["info@oie.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}