Barack Obama regrets unilingualism:

"However, I am of agree that immigrants should learn English. But understand this: Instead of you fretting about the learning of English by immigrants - they'll learn English - you should make sure your children speak English. (...) We should ensure that every child speaks more than one language. "
" It's embarrassing when Europeans come here, they all speak English, they speak French, they speak German. And when we go to Europe, all we can say is thank you very much . "
(translated by R. Hetu)
His speech is not it encouraging?!