Question: Are these other languages learned in the country where the Cotton Research and Promotion Act made cotton the best selling fiber as popular as the language of the nation with the oldest navy in the world?

The Spanish Infantería de Marina was formed in 1537, making it the oldest, current marine force 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. <SEP> At that time, producers voted to set up a per-bale assessment system to fund the program, with built-in safeguards to protect their investments. With the passage of the Cotton Research and Promotion Act of 1966, the program joined forces and began battling synthetic competitors and re-establishing markets for cotton. Beginning as a self-help program in the mid-1960s, the Cotton Research and Promotion Program (CRPP) was organized by U.S. cotton producers in response to cotton's steady decline in market share. Today, the success of this program has made cotton the best-selling fiber in the U.S. and one of the best-selling fibers in the world. [citation needed] <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> ``cotton - eye joe ''has inspired both a partner dance and more than one line dance that is often danced at country dance venues in the u.s. and around the world. the 1980 film urban cowboy sparked a renewed interest in the dance. in 1985, the moody brothers' version of the song received a grammy award nomination for`` best country instrumental performance''. irish group the chieftains received a grammy nomination for ``best country vocal collaboration ''for their version of the song with lead vocals by ricky skaggs on their 1992 album, another country. in 1994, a version of the song recorded by the swedish band rednex as`` cotton eye joe'' became popular worldwide. <SEP> gm cotton acreage in india grew at a rapid rate, increasing from 50,000 hectares in 2002 to 10.6 million hectares in 2011. the total cotton area in india was 12.1 million hectares in 2011, so gm cotton was grown on 88% of the cotton area. this made india the country with the largest area of gm cotton in the world. a long-term study on the economic impacts of bt cotton in india, published in the journal pnas in 2012, showed that bt cotton has increased yields, profits, and living standards of smallholder farmers. the u.s. gm cotton crop was 4.0 million hectares in 2011 the second largest area in the world, the chinese gm cotton crop was third largest by area with 3.9 million hectares and pakistan had the fourth largest gm cotton crop area of 2.6 million hectares in 2011. the initial introduction of gm cotton proved to be a success in australia – the yields were equivalent to the non-transgenic varieties and the crop used much less pesticide to produce (85% reduction). the subsequent introduction of a second variety of gm cotton led to increases in gm cotton production until 95% of the australian cotton crop was gm in 2009 making australia the country with the fifth largest gm cotton crop in the world. other gm cotton growing countries in 2011 were argentina, myanmar, burkina faso, brazil, mexico, colombia, south africa and costa rica.