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Amid racial profiling and declining enrollments, language education must shift from competing programs to integrated plurilingual pathways. Teaching Spanish and Portuguese together develops metalinguistic awareness, cognitive flexibility, and transferable learning strategies-not just vocabulary. This asset-based approach validates the linguistic repertoires of heritage, migrant, and Indigenous speakers while building cross-cultural competence for all. Students gain employability advantages across global markets through authentic multilingual communication skills. Implementation requires minimal resources: simultaneous or sequential models emphasizing contrastive analysis and learner autonomy. The result is scalable programs that demonstrate measurable outcomes, resist budget cuts, and prepare adaptive global citizens.

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