That leaves Democrats, and that small number of Republicans, to craft legislative language for future consideration.
The Languages for the Future report identified those languages, in order of importance, as: Spanish, Arabic, French, Mandarin, German, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Turkish and Japanese.
Gough adds that she would like to see more languages identified in the British Council's 2013 Languages for the Future report being more widely taught in schools.
The British Council's 2013 report Languages for the Future showed that 75% of UK adults polled were unable to hold a conversation in any of the languages highlighted as crucial to the UK's future economic standing.
The company behind it says it's working on more languages for the future: "We believe everyone should be able to confidently travel anywhere in the world without language barriers," said its CEO, Ryan Rogowski.
I thought it would hold steady while we were introducing languages lower down and I didn't expect so many heads to decide their kids didn't need to do a language.' Universities, too, blame schools for failing to instil in children the importance of learning languages for their future in a global economy.
If everyone became involved in supporting the communities that want to wake up their "sleeping" languages, the ones that are not strong, we would win the fight to save the 250 or more Australian languages for all future generations, and for all Australians.
In its report Languages for the Future, the British Council highlighted the need for schools, educators and parents to utilise the language skills of the UK's diaspora and minority communities, warning that failing to do so was a waste of resources.
The British Council's report "Languages for the Future" [ 10] identifies Portuguese as one of the ten languages most vital to UK over the next 20 years.
We leave a more detailed exploration of gender bias across all language editions for future work.
