s a well known fact that the French fear the English language. The Academie Francaise coins neologisms for Anglo-American slang to guard the French language against "corruption". However, French students are learning English in school earlier and earlier (Fishman 7).Moscow instituted Russian as the official language of education and government in the Baltics and Central Asia. Many Russian states have passed extremely strict laws, placing education, science, and culture within the exclusive purview of their national languages and leaving ethnic Russians out in the cold (Fishman 8). This creates barriers within barriers.In many societies, languages of the area are each assigned their own, specific purpose. It is understood that there is a language for business, a language for intimate situations, such as with family, and perhaps yet another language used for religious purposes. Sometimes, more than one language is used within a single sentence. Seperate languages are used as if for different tones. For example, one might insult you in one language, but praise you in another. Also, there are dialect switches according to the situation (UWA 1-3). Thus, we see that multilingualism is not at all infeasible for the world.There are many jobs to be acquired in the field of multilingualism. Among these, are teaching, translating, and interpreting. The number of openings for these types of jobs are ever growing. The English as a Second Language program (ESL) in the U.S., especially needs teachers who are fluent in Spanish and other languages of immigrants to the country. These jobs require a great knowledge of the language and culture as well as fluency (Bluford 1-2).Translators are needed for many jobs concerning the translation of books and documents, Radford 5among other. Interpreters are needed for internat...
