Lasirius
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part of the problem is that some of the older folk are just too damn set in their ways and don't WANT to learn a language at their age...
then there's the contingent of the younger ones who don't want to learn English here... some of these are the parents of today's young kids, who will grow up speaking either a broken and/or thick English or speak with a half Spanish half English vocabulary because their lazyass parents refuse to learn the language...
those kids MAY learn to speak the language if they attend an English-speaking school, but the odds are that the parents will want to place them in a solely Latino/Hispanic school... and that's just f**ked up and wrong...
those kids should be raised as speaking both their native language as well as English, so that they can interact properly in American English-speaking society...
It's not that adults are refusing to learn English, it's that it's more difficult for them.
It's way easier for kids to learn two or more languages because of their young age, if you learn it at a later age you might have difficulty because you're using two different parts of the brain when using both languages whereas if you learn it at a younger age you only use one part of the brain.
But like you said there's always people who will not want to speak it, of course.
In my family, my Mom, aunts, and uncles have been going to English classes but they started going when they were already in their 40s.
My Mom is in her 50s already and she can't have a proper conversation with an English speaker. They might understand what you're saying sometimes but still unable to properly communicate what they've learned.
There's that and the fact that they might not have the confidence, it's way harder to try to do that than having to press 1 on the phone for English options.
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