ional relations. Hospitals, schools, and large corporations are in great need of interpreters to enable them to communicate with those who may not know the local language. The European Union has many interpreters and translators. One person is rarely capable of being both an interpreter and a translator (Fishman 8)."Language can break you. Language can box you in, force you down paths you never would have taken. For others, it can be a magic portal to wealth, power, and other plateaus of attainment."(Ferrell and Hotz 1) For whatever reason, our society and others stubbornly push away the concept of multilingualism. We must overcome this fear and do our duty as world citizens. We must become multilingual. Resistance and closed mindedness of some groups have prevented the spread of multilingualism, which is much needed in an ever shrinking global society....
