美国的外语学习入学人数的变化

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美国现代语言协会最近（2013年）的语言入学统计显示，几乎所有外语入学率都呈下降趋势，选择学习最多的语言西班牙语下降尤其严重。但4种语言入学率在上升：韩语(44.7%)、美国手势语(19.0%)、葡萄牙语(10.1%)、汉语(2.0%)：

Language Enrollments and Percentage Change

Language	Change from 2002-06 (%)	Change from 2006-09 (%)	Change from 2009-13 (%)	2013 Enrollment (students)
Spanish	+10.3	+4.7	-8.2	790,756
French	+2.0	+4.5	-8.1	197,757
American Sign	+31.1	+15.5	+19.1	109,577
German	+3.3	+1.6	-9.3	86,700
Italian	+22.3	+2.7	-11.3	71,285
Japanese	+25.2	+10.6	-7.8	66,740
Chinese	+50.4	+16.5	+2	61,055
Arabic	+126.6	+45.5	-7.5	32,286
Latin	+7.8	+0.9	-16.2	27,192
Russian	+3.5	+8.0	-17.9	21,962
Ancient Greek	+12	-12.2	-35.5	12,917
Biblical Hebrew	-0.3	-2.6	-8.7	12,551
Portuguese	+23	+9.3	+10.1	12,415
Korean	+37.1	+18.2	+44.7	12,229
Modern Hebrew	11.6	-13.6	-19.4	6,698
Other languages	33.6	21.4	-2.6	40,059
Total	+12.9	+6.2	-6.7	1,562,179

（来源：https://www.insidehighered.com/n ... t-foreign-languages）
不过，从逐年的趋势看，汉语上升速度明显放慢。

另一资料来源：“Highlights of the MLA’s 2013 Survey of Enrollments in Languages Other Than English”
https://www.mla.org/content/down ... ment_survey_hig.pdf