off the WAL

The World Languages department at Washington Academy of Languages (http://www.wal.org/wl/index.html) opened its first courses in 1984, a time when languages were mainly taught on university campuses. Twenty-four years ago, language study was certainly not in the forefront of people’s mind in Seattle (http://www.seattle.gov/); back then, one could graduate from high school without being exposed to [...]

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