Found my Chinese textbook!!

Anybody else noticing the recent increase in languages in television? Today there was a bilingual Korean-English flight attendant (whose first words, to a white American holding a simple picture dictionary, were in Korean... as if that would ever happen!). Most of it is portrayed as negative (ie bragging French woman), although there are some relatively positive but face-palm (entertaining clients with Chinese that although basic and clearly lacking in basic knowledge of food, was effective to the ignorant business men), and others ambiguous (car ad? with Japanese). Regardless of how they are depicted, five years or so ago though, you wouldn't have been able to hear ANY foreign language, so I guess this is progress?

Gotta remember to look up representations of foreign language and foreigners in commercials...

In other news, reading the introduction to a book on SLA in study abroad, where they are only defining study abroad and looking at the viewpoints different countries/people can take in approach to it..... blew my mind. Can't wait to get further in it :)