I know I'm going to get a lot of angry replies for this one, but making Spanish a second language makes perfect sense to me. Think about this for a second: when you go to some other country (anywhere in Europe, Asia, etc.), everyone under the age of eighty speaks perfect English. It is polite to try and learn a few phrases, but you are not expected to speak their language fluently (in fact, in Japan, they refuse to believe that anyone not born there can speak their language...this got them in trouble in WWII, but we won't go there). So why don't we do the same thing? Now, I'm not suggesting that people who immigrate here from a Spanish-speaking country shouldn't learn passable English--on the contrary, they should make sure they can speak it fairly well before they arrive--but I just think it wouldn't hurt to be a little more cosmopolitan when it comes to languages. It's not going to threaten English in any way; it would still be the first language. So why is it such a touchy issue?
2006-06-18
09:06:21
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