Multilingual youths fluent in future tense

When I entered university back in the old days, they required us to take at least a year of a foreign language. My sights were set on being a journalist, and another language wasn't on my list of priorities.

Spanish seemed like the easiest, so I signed up, not knowing that doing so would send me down an unfamiliar road that would change my life. Since then, I have worked, traveled or studied in 12 Latin American nations, Puerto Rico and Spain.

My three sons grew up bilingual, speaking English and Spanish. All have used their second language to their advantage in the job market.