ASL fifth most studied foreign language</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="ASL fifth most studied foreign language"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="ASL,fifth,most,studied,foreign,language"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">11-08-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>ASL fifth most studied foreign language</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/img_news/img_DO3yrjOOj5stB2qhsl73_0.jpeg" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" ><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">California, USA (San Diego Union Tribune): ASL has been accepted as a foreign language in many U.S. colleges. It is the fifth most studied foreign language, behind Spanish, French, German and Italian. <br>At the University of California and California State University systems, the number of ASL courses has jumped from 1,000 in 1998 to 10,000 this year, according to the state Department of Education. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20050810-9999-1mc10deaf.html " target="blank">www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20050810-9999-1mc10deaf.html </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show