{"id":1306,"date":"2026-03-22T02:49:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T02:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=1306"},"modified":"2026-03-22T02:49:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T02:49:22","slug":"a-diplomatic-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=1306","title":{"rendered":"A Diplomatic Request"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-lnk-sptlght wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/languagemagazine.com\/2026\/03\/20\/a-diplomatic-request\/\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"A Diplomatic Request\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/languagemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Cover_March_06_-scaled.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">languagemagazine.com<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">A Diplomatic Request<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">President Trump and his team value multilingualism As automated translation improves and college language program enrollments drop, it\u2019s encouraging to hear how valuable language skills are, especially when the source is an advocate for English-only policies and the president of the United Sates. At the recent Shield of the Americas Summit, President Trump made headlines with his emphatic refusal to learn Spanish, stating, \u201cI\u2019m not learning your language\u2014I don\u2019t have time. I was OK with languages, but I\u2019m not going to spend time learning your language.\u201d However, he went on to comment on how valuable Secretary of State Marco Rubio\u2019s<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-1306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politica","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1307,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions\/1307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}