It is an unfortunate reality that the U.S. position in global markets tends to drive the need for business use of English. This has the unfortunate side affect of making American's less interested in learning second languages. I frequently work with counterparts in other countries that have an excellent command of English as well as two or three other languages, and often feel foolish for not being fluent in even one other. Which begs the joke: What do you call a person who speaks three languages? Trilingual. What do you call a person who speaks two languages? Bilingual. What do you call a person who speaks one language? American. :-/ :-)