America is tongue-tied and gullible when it comes to learning languages. Discover how you are being ripped-off and mislead by almost everyone, including yourself!
Language author and expert Mark Frobose steps on many toes as he reveals the slew of falsehoods, half truths and outright language scams prevalent in America today. In addition to uncovering how the American public is being ‘language-suckered’ from Berlitz to Rosetta Stone, from grade school through college, and from Main Street to Wall Street, the author also teaches us the ‘truth about languages’ and proposes practical and inexpensive language solutions for schools, businesses and the average person.
Lies About Language – Misleading a Tongue-Tied America does the following:
1. Shows how anyone can gain proficiency in any language quickly and easily without spending a fortune to do it.
2. Historically explains why America has a language deficit in the first place and makes recommendations for improving it.
3. Details exactly how the U.S. language teaching establishment is deceiving Americans with expensive language programs that do not get results.
4. Explains how a massive 83 billion dollar global language product industry lies to Americans daily to increase their bottom line without providing accountability.
5. Reveals how expensive bilingual education programs have permanently frozen Latino children into a permanent social underclass while their parents are deceived into believing that they are helping them learn.
6. Uncovers how America’s universities are contributing to America’s language deficit by continuing to focus on literature instead of language proficiency.
7. Warns of America’s growing language deficit in critical ‘strategic languages’ that threatens American business, diplomacy, national security and our future prosperity as a nation.