For a Peace Corps official to speak to the leading organization of teachers of foreign languages is somewhat analogous to a speech by Secretary McNamara to the assembled space manufacturers. We are certainly, at this point, the largest users of your product—if we correctly understand each other that your product is the modern man (or woman to be sure) trained in the use of a language other than his own. I realize that this is a narrow definition of the work you do, but I hope that in the time allotted to me I will be able to satisfy you that we in the Peace Corps, as you in the Foreign Language Section of the Modern Language Association, share a broader concern for the uses—past, present, and future—of language.