Should everyone in America have to learn spanish?

[Corinthian™]

I'll listin to your defense the moment you can writ it with proper grammar and spelling.

when everything else fails, go for the grammerz, right Kritish?

 

[Kritish]

when everything else fails, go for the grammerz, right Kritish?

I just think you should at least try to spell your words right before you tell me that Immigrants shouldn't have to learn English.

 

[Speedball]

I refuse to learn spanish.
If you want to, fine by me, but I don't want to.

 

[Matt]

Why should we? People come to this country of their own volition, they should have to learn our language, make some sacrifices...not expect us to just learn their language for them.

 

[Kritish]

Why should we? People come to this country of their own volition, they should have to learn our language, make some sacrifices...not expect us to just learn their language for them.

Thank you.

 

[cryptic name]

it would probably help, but i'm not a fan of "having" to do anything like that. so no.
and yes, it is impossible to deport every illegal immigrant.

 

[Arkady Rossovich]

And on another note, do you think its impossible to deport every illegal alien?

No.Im from Europe and i think America should just have English,i would say French or German as choices...and if America can build an Atomic Bomb,they can hunt down,and deport every hispanic.

 

[Mr. Socko]

No, Spanish should only be a choice in America. The only places where Spanish should be required is Mexico and Spain(and the other latin/spanish countries).

It's ridiculous in places like Southern California, Texas, etc, where you walk into a store and all you hear is spanish everywhere in your own damn country. All Immigrants should learn English, plain and simple.

 

[Kritish]

No, Spanish should only be a choice in America. The only places where Spanish should be required is Mexico and Spain(and the other latin/spanish countries).

It's ridiculous in places like Southern California, Texas, etc, where you walk into a store and all you hear is spanish everywhere in your own damn country. All Immigrants should learn English, plain and simple.

Glad to see that I'm not alone, I live in Ft. Worth and in certain areas English is the minority.

 

[mrvlknight21]

Nope, but it would certainly help someone trying to get ahead in business or other jobs.

 

[Spider-Man9X17]

You want to live/work/go to school/anything in America, you should learn English.

 

[X-Chick]

Why should we? People come to this country of their own volition, they should have to learn our language, make some sacrifices...not expect us to just learn their language for them.

I agree. Though I have plenty of Mexican friends, I think its ridiculous that we're expected to learn Spanish instead of them just learning English. If we all flocked to France, they wouldn't all start speaking English for our sake.

 

[DarthRekal]

I think everyone in America should have to learn English. I don't care if they speak something else at home, that's their business, but if you are moving legally or illegally to an English Speaking country, you should learn the language. If I was moving to France or Japan, I would be forced to learn French or Japanese. I think that english requirements should be instituted for any job that requires interaction with the public (fast food, retail, etc.) Maybe if everyone spoke english, for once they'd understand I wanted my cherry coke with no ice at Del Taco.

exactly .. good post dew..


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[Mr Sparkle]

I'll listin to your defense the moment you can writ it with proper grammar and spelling.

LOL coming from you that means nothing.
it's a weak cop out you know it.

 

[Mr Sparkle]

I just think you should at least try to spell your words right before you tell me that Immigrants shouldn't have to learn English.

oh dude, this is sad.

I wasn't even going to adress it but you tried to make it an issue.
1st. I'm not an immigrant, so my grammar should not be taken into account as to the validity of my point.
second, I have better sentence structure and spelling than YOU 95% of the time, notice how you never touched the second portion of the post which was I guess, not convenient to your point.
third, I find it Ironic that you harp about language when you apparently aren't familiar with basic punctuation as readily apparent by your post.

weak Siva, really weak .

 

[Kritish]

Language is one of the unifying forces of the American experience, and with such a diverse country, English spoken by all generations back to 1776 has provided a source of unity, together with a common history, and common principles (Equal opportunity, liberty, democracy etc.) to build the American character and nationality - as German is indicative of German nationality, and French to French nationality - or Spanish for Mexican nationality (which is why they have that as their official language) - So to is English for American nationality. TO understand English is to understand the Declaration of Indpendence, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution etc. - as a leading Senator has stated recently those of us who do speak other langauges realize that something is always lost in translation.

 

[Mr Sparkle]

Language is one of the unifying forces of the American experience, and with such a diverse country, English spoken by all generations back to 1776 has provided a source of unity, together with a common history, and common principles (Equal opportunity, liberty, democracy etc.) to build the American character and nationality - as German is indicative of German nationality, and French to French nationality - or Spanish for Mexican nationality (which is why they have that as their official language) - So to is English for American nationality. TO understand English is to understand the Declaration of Indpendence, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution etc. - as a leading Senator has stated recently those of us who do speak other langauges realize that something is always lost in translation.

that is actually complete and utter rubbish (again) for the simple fact that in "chinatown" English was spoken only as a Second language and patrons to the stores there still had to deal mostly with broken English.
most of the people in Little Italy also spoke mostly Italian back a hundred years, in fact, look at most movies from the 70's and 80's it was such a common practice that there are many examples, the one that comes to mind is the priest in the Rocky Movies.
Spanish is NOT only indicative of the Mexican nationality, it is spoken in a lof of other places in south America all the way to argentina, and In Spain they speak both Spanish AND Catalan and no "chaotic" situtations have presented themselves, Even in England, both welsh and English are spoken in Wales of course, and again, not Chaos to be found.
this is a made up issue, I can't go out to the states without hearing a BUNCH of languages, somehow Spanish is an Issue .
LOL, I buy my Tennis supplies from a Korean Lady that has her store in the states and she can barely string a complete sentence together, her mother flat out can't speak english.
yet, I've haven't seen anyone denounce this.
and guess what! I don't care either! it affects me if I let it affect me.

 

[mwm1331]

While it shouldn't be national law, states like mine, southern California, and New Mexico should require Spanish throughout gradeschool. The future and prosperity of the southwest cannot disclude our huge latino population. Whether they are bilingual or speak Spanish only, they work and contribute to the wealth of our states. We, therefore, need to stop plugging holes with our heads and create a special clause for bilingualism.

Or you know they could learn english.
Since its been proven that "billungual education" actually delays them from learning english, getting an education, a good job, etc.

 

[mwm1331]

It's very common in British schools to learn French from Grade School then in High School adding German to the lessons (I was also taught Latin but that's not really useful in modern world). It's incredibly useful to learn other languages for travel, in business and looks fantastic on resumes. With the world as it is at the moment I think Japanese would be very useful to be taught in High Schools.

So yes, I don't see why people in America shouldn't learn at least Spanish in schools.

Because you know most of the world speaks english as a first or second language, while the number of french speakers has been declining for the last 30 years or so?

 

[Assassin]

no, most of the people here dont know english!

I know 3 languages and spanish isnt on eof them, i refuse to learn it.

 

[Mr Sparkle]

i refuse to learn it.

LOL.

 

[CConn]

Why should we? People come to this country of their own volition, they should have to learn our language, make some sacrifices...not expect us to just learn their language for them.

Exactly. I mean, if I decided to move to Germany or Italy or some other country that doesn't speak english, I would fully expect to have to learn their language. Language exist for communication, after all. And to...complicate everything just so a relatively small percentage of Americans (hell, a lot of them aren't even legal Americans) don't have to be inconvenienced just seems pointless and, well, wrong.

I'm all for learning, and being introduced to new cultures and languages. But those things should be of people's own volition. It shouldn't be forced upon them. As an english-speaker, I wouldn't ask that of any non-english speaking country, and I don't think non-english speakers should ask that of the US.

 

[dmor173]

You shouldnt make anyone learn another language. Thats dumb.

But the government should subsidise language schools teaching adults a second language. I think thats a great idea. If on english speakers want to learn english, or if an english speaker wants to learn spanish ect...

Language is on the biggest barriers in the world. if were asking non-english speakers to take a hundred steps towards us, we could take some towards them.

Im australian and we dont make people learn new languages. In school we mostly study French German and Japanease and after about year 8 its optional.

If I could get the government to pay for me to learn japanease or chinese Id sign up.

 

[Kritish]

Exactly. I mean, if I decided to move to Germany or Italy or some other country that doesn't speak english, I would fully expect to have to learn their language. Language exist for communication, after all. And to...complicate everything just so a relatively small percentage of Americans (hell, a lot of them aren't even legal Americans) don't have to be inconvenienced just seems pointless and, well, wrong.

I'm all for learning, and being introduced to new cultures and languages. But those things should be of people's own volition. It shouldn't be forced upon them. As an english-speaker, I wouldn't ask that of any non-english speaking country, and I don't think non-english speakers should ask that of the US.

We agree on something, I hope the universe doesn't implode. But yeah, I also think that these bill boards and such are only helping the problem, it's becoming more and more comfortable for them to not speak English.

I'm getting pretty tired of being called a racist about it too, I don't give a rat's ass if they're Polish, Japanese or Mexicans. It just happens the most of them are Mexicans in this area.

 

[Assassin]

LOL.

Did I explain that i'm not even all that good at english?