We offer foreign language courses in Boston. Our description wants to capture keywords like French Italian, Spanish... the languages people might be searching for when they are looking for a foreign language class.As a result, though, the number of words in the description is too high. Any suggestion on how I can keep the 12-24 density?

First, your description tag should focus on your keywords... not the name of your company...
This is your current description:
"The Boston Language Institute is one of the most broadly based language schools in Boston. In addition to Arabic, Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin), Farsi, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish, and Russian classes offered year round on a group basis, the Institute also arranges private and semi-private instruction in over 100 additional foreign languages, including Dutch, Hebrew, Latin, Polish, Thai, Vietnamese, and rare languages such as Khmer, Nepali, Tamil, Tibetan, Urdu and Swahili.">

What you should say is" Foreign language school in Boston teaches arabic, chinese, etc..." or something like that...perhaps that way you can limit your descriptive words to 14, which is the max you should be using.
also, your keywords limit is 48 words....and personally, I prefer phrases rather than words.

hope this helps...

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