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Miami Needs to Study Spanish

International financial hub finds Latinos' language skills lagging

By Jane Yager, Newser Staff

Posted Mar 3, 2008 1:30 PM CST

(Newser) – Miami's role as an international city—the "financial hub of Latin America," as one businessman calls it—is threatened by its residents' declining Spanish skills, the Miami Herald reports. Many descendants of the Cuban entrepreneurs and businessmen who flooded South Florida in the... Read full story »

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International financial hub finds Latinos' language skills lagging

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