This package includes the World-Readiness Standards AND all 16 language-specific standards documents as s. The World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages create a roadmap to guide learners to develop competence to communicate effectively and interact with cultural understanding. "World-Readiness" signals that the Standards have been revised with important changes to focus on the literacy developed and the real-world applications. Learners who add another language and culture to their preparation are not only college- and career-ready, but are also " world-ready" -- that is, prepared to add the necessary knowledge, skills, and dispositions to their ré sumé s for entering postsecondary study or a career. This package includes language-specific Standards for: American Sign Language (ASL), Arabic, Chinese, Classical Languages (Latin and Greek), French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Scandinavian Languages (Danish, Norwegian and Swedish), Spanish, Tamil and Yoruba.