{"id":3282,"date":"2017-10-13T09:56:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T13:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.little-sponges.com\/?p=3282"},"modified":"2018-03-21T12:41:41","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T16:41:41","slug":"america-the-bilingual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.little-sponges.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/13\/america-the-bilingual\/","title":{"rendered":"America the Bilingual"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3282\" class=\"elementor elementor-3282 elementor-bc-flex-widget\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2qedz12 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2qedz12\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ldbmztq\" data-id=\"ldbmztq\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-gafnf9w elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"gafnf9w\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Article by Steve Leveen at <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leadwithlanguages.org\/success-stories\/professionals\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">LeadWithLanguages.org<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/p><p>Let me welcome you to\u00a0<strong>America the Bilingual<\/strong>, a podcast for monolingual Americans, like me, who are learning their second language\u2014or want to begin.<\/p><p>Today, it\u2019s normal for Americans, even highly educated ones, to grow up speaking only English. 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