I disagree with the whole rant. People try to learn English. But most of them were hearing a different language when they were born. When their mom was pregnant, maybe the dad would speak to them in spanish. That's the language it'd be easier to speak for them. Do you know how hard it is for most people to learn a second language?

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of cource i know how hard it is for people to learn a second language, i have to do two years of it in Highschool.... like i said earlyer the parents, and the child refused to even try to learn english... and thats what pisses me off the most. because they are in america, speaking nothing but their home language, and not even trying to learn english, and if they did try, obviously not hard enough because there are i am sure millions of other spanish speakers out there that learned english, and it might be hard but they should still be forced to learn int before coming to america.

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The problem is they are not coming to assimulate they are coming to earn money and send it home. We have allowed people who thought they were being nice to be in control and now we have a mess. We should not have voting ballots, street signs, shop signs or advertising in multiple languanges. When we do that, we are telling people it is okay to not learn our language. It is okay to not adopt our culture. It is okay to take our help and give nothing back in return.


I could go on and on and on. Language is just one aspect of the whole problem.

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My mom is *Legal* Immigrant. She speaks spanish only. I speak very well english and spanish. I guess being bilingual is usefull. My dad speaks spanish also aswell.

And yes, i never spoke english until i got to school and learned.

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well the my not want to learn english cus it is one of the hardest languages to learn im learning italian now and it is hard but i still think the sould atlest be able to carey on a convosation with ease if the want to take classes in school or atlest start learing in school

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And my dad tried to learn english and knows a bit. My mom knows very little but she din't really take classes, my dad took few classes at my highschool. But due to work, it wasn't much possible.

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Take a hint from the country I live in where we have two Official Languages. English and French. Maybe you we have English ( well, a version of it) and Espanol?

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lol, your country is its own little world jlhaslip

hmm i dont know if making america a two language country would be all that great, because people would still be forced to learn spanish in high school, and it would give a better reason for people who dont speak english not to learn english...

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Techniqually the U.S. does not have an official language due to the huge melting pot we have. English is the Dominate but it's not the Official. Well of course I wouldn't be worried about what language you will take I be more worried about what contury you will be working in since all these big companies are moving their factories to other countires for cheap labor. Although I disagree with the school systems forcing students to take a language like labus mention.

Although i wouldn't mind learning a second language or 2. You all have to remember (going to get the backlash for this) America was open season til the passport came into play. Although we can blame our past for how our future was shaped. Put like this trying dealing with it the best possible way and when you become a government official then you can start making the changes. Although I think Bush has literally screwed everyone over I just feel sorry for the next person to become president. Of course I even feel more sorrier for the future and whatever it maybe.

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from what my grandme told me, a few years back english was voted the offical language ofamerica, and this was by the people. but oh well >_< maybe ill research that and post it here (if i ever do it)

yes it is verry wrong they force you to learn a foreign language.

yeah, bush has screwed up big time and the next person has allot of fixing to do in order to get the US back in shape...

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