The World's Patrick Cox speaks with Laurel Zuckerman, an American who has written a book about her failed attempt to become an English teacher in France.

Jacob Fenston reports on a Paris high school that is offering classes in the Creole French spoken in the Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique. This is a first for France.

Derek Bickerton is a linguist who had a wild idea for a linguistic experiment. He dreamed of placing six families that spoke six different languages on an uninhabited island for three years, in an attempt to create new Creole language. And he almost got the funding for it. The World's Patrick Cox tells the story.

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Anchor Katy Clark speaks with Republican Congressman Pete Hoekstra about the CIA's language problem. The agency doesn't have enough employees who speak foreign languages. Congressman Hoekstra is a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence.

When President Obama made his first public comments on the rescue of an American cargo shop captain from Somali pirates, he said "...I want to be very clear that we are resolved to halt the rise of privacy in that region." Some have called it a presidential flub, but The World's Jason Margolis says maybe so, but it's not as straightforward as it seems.

President Obama sent a recorded message to viewers of a music awards show on the Spanish language network, Univision last night. Anchor Katy Clark has details.

Anchor Katy Clark speaks with journalist Agnes Poirier about French President Nicolas Sarkozy's use of colloquial French expressions and why some French don't like it.

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Mexico is so much more than the stories of violence that have recently grabbed headlines. Anchor Katy Clark traveled there recently to see how many Americans are learning Spanish in the Mexican city of Cuernavaca.

Learning Spanish in Mexico

Some words are older than others...much older, as The World's Alex Gallafent tells anchor Lisa Mullins.

The Koreas have been divided for more than a half-century. And that's created a language divide as well. Jason Strother reports from Seoul.