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All we care about for the purposes of this discussion is whether it matters in Cambridge, Mass., or New Haven, or someplace similar, right? Fluency in a language other than English is fluency in a language other than English, plain and simple.</p>
<p>Can you also read and write Spanish? Could you read a Spanish-language newspaper? Could you take a Spanish SAT II?</p>
<p>What I’m driving at is this: two years of French is a very different matter if French is your third language, rather than your second.</p>