Education Secretary Forecasts a Bilingual Mexico Mexico News Daily
go to original September 16, 2015

Promoting English: Nuño, left, and Navy Secretary Vidal Francisco Soberón Sanz

Mexico will be a bilingual country within 10 to 20 years, the new Secretary of Education forecast last week.

Aurelio Nuño Mayer said the federal government is working on the creation of a national English program in order to reach that goal.

“English is the language through which we can all communicate; it is a tool and a fundamental part of professional development and modernization,” he said, and necessary for workers to carry out their jobs.

Nuño made the announcement during the official signing of an agreement with the Secretary of the Navy to provide scholarships for English training. The scholarship program will provide three months of total English immersion training to 17 members of the Navy, who will go on to become English-language instructors.

...Estimates of the number of Mexicans who speak or understand English run between 2% and 5%, a situation that represents a great cost to the country’s competitiveness internationally, says the head of a think tank.

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