Failures and successes in teaching commercial foreign languages will speak for themselves. However, the profession must not foster exaggerated expectations of mastery in such a broad field, but must state honestly and realistically, with clear limits, what the commercial language course's goals are. In a college course enrolling somewhat experienced language students with little or no exposure to commercial foreign languages, the curriculum can be designed with objectives roughly analogous to those of a beginning undergraduate literature course: awareness of and respect for the field and familiarity with some of its important features. (MSE)