{"id":1573,"date":"2026-10-01T17:34:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T17:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/multilingual-mainers\/?p=1573"},"modified":"2026-10-22T18:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T18:23:08","slug":"why-study-languages-in-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/multilingual-mainers\/news\/2026\/why-study-languages-in-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Why study languages in college?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This fall semester Bowdoin is participating in a study on language learning organized by ACTFL. The goal is to understand why or why not undergraduates choose to study a language other than English. Read more and join the survey <a href=\"https:\/\/georgetown.az1.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_bkr2MGJ82rREusC\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1574\" src=\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/multilingual-mainers\/files\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-22-at-1.34.08-PM-300x134.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/multilingual-mainers\/files\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-22-at-1.34.08-PM-300x134.png 300w, https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/multilingual-mainers\/files\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-22-at-1.34.08-PM-768x342.png 768w, https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/multilingual-mainers\/files\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-22-at-1.34.08-PM.png 812w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This fall semester Bowdoin is participating in a study on language learning organized by ACTFL. The goal is to understand why or why not undergraduates choose to study a language other than English. Read more and join the survey here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry","has-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/multilingual-mainers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/multilingual-mainers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/multilingual-mainers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/multilingual-mainers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/multilingual-mainers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/multilingual-mainers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1581,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/multilingual-mainers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions\/1581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/multilingual-mainers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/multilingual-mainers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/multilingual-mainers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}