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President Bush has proposed to increase the study of foreign languages in American schools. The new plan is called the National Security Language Initiative. It will (36) the departments of State, Education and Defense, and the director of National (37) The plan calls for teaching foreign languages to more children, as early as the age of four. It also (38) to increase foreign language instruction in college and (39) school. The hope is to bring more foreign language speakers into government service. And it calls for (40) an effort begun three years ago to increase the number of (41) officers who speak foreign languages. (42) officials will ask for one hundred fourteen million dollars in two thousand seven to start the (43) . They say too many American children learn only English. (44) Officials say money would be used to help foreign-language students pay for their education in exchange for future service. (45) .And it calls for bringing more foreign language teaching assistants to the United States. Officials say the United States does not have enough foreign language teachers. (46) .Yet less than one-third of American elementary schools teach languages other than English. And experts say most of these schools just teach the basics, not how to speak a foreign language well.