Question: Are these other languages learned in the country Eisenhower was president of as popular as the language spoken by the owners of the oldest navy in the world?

The British Royal Marines combine being both a ship - based force and also being specially trained in commando - style operations and tactics, operating in some cases separately from the rest of the Royal Navy. The Royal Marines also have their own special forces unit. The Spanish Infantería de Marina was formed in 1537, making it the oldest, current marine force in the world. <SEP> eisenhower was the last president born in the 19th century, and at age 62, was the oldest man elected president since james buchanan in 1856 (president truman stood at 64 in 1948 as the incumbent president at the time of his election four years earlier). eisenhower was the only general to serve as president in the 20th century and the most recent president to have never held elected office prior to the presidency (the other presidents who did not have prior elected office were zachary taylor, ulysses s. grant, william howard taft and herbert hoover). <SEP> More than 1.4 million university students were enrolled in language courses in autumn of 2002 and Spanish is the most widely taught language in American colleges and universities with 53 percent of the total number of people enrolled, followed by French (14.4%), German (7.1%), Italian (4.5%), American Sign language (4.3%), Japanese (3.7%), and Chinese (2.4%) although the totals remain relatively small in relation to the total U.S population. Spanish is currently the most widely taught non-English language in American secondary schools and of higher education. <SEP> when estonia was invaded and occupied by the soviet union in world war ii, the status of the estonian language changed to the first of two official languages (russian being the other one). as with latvia many immigrants entered estonia under soviet encouragement. in the second half of the 1970s, the pressure of bilingualism (for estonians) intensified, resulting in widespread knowledge of russian throughout the country. the russian language was termed as ‘the language of friendship of nations’ and was taught to estonian children, sometimes as early as in kindergarten. although teaching estonian to non-estonians in schools was compulsory, in practice learning the language was often considered unnecessary. <SEP> Yugoslavia had a liberal travel policy permitting foreigners to freely travel through the country and its citizens to travel worldwide, whereas it was limited by most Communist countries. A number[quantify] of Yugoslav citizens worked throughout Western Europe. He also met numerous celebrities. Tito met many world leaders during his rule, such as Soviet rulers Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev; Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, Indian politicians Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi; British Prime Ministers Winston Churchill, James Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher; U.S. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter; other political leaders, dignitaries and heads of state that Tito met at least once in his lifetime included Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Yasser Arafat, Willy Brandt, Helmut Schmidt, Georges Pompidou, Queen Elizabeth II, Hua Guofeng, Kim Il Sung, Sukarno, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Suharto, Idi Amin, Haile Selassie, Kenneth Kaunda, Gaddafi, Erich Honecker, Nicolae Ceaușescu, János Kádár and Urho Kekkonen.