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1. Although Americans love to travel to foreign countries, they seldom learn to speak other languages.

2. My sister, who teaches Spanish and Italian in New York, says that she had more students twenty years ago.

3. She wrote a book about what she has learned over the years.

4. What she worries about is the general decline in American language-learning skills.

5. She believes that American families used to take more pride in learning second languages.

6. The internet, which has become such a global phenomenon, has contributed to the predominance of English.

7. My sister's conviction is that American students could use the internet to help them learn other languages.

8. English is the dominant language on the internet because the American computer industry dominates the rest of the world.

9. When non-Americans get on the internet, they frequently are trying to improve their English.

10. What computers have meant to language learning has surprised just about everyone in the academic world.