What is your opinion on english being the national primary language?

Answer 1

In this country as a whole, we speek English. Although we do have many different cultures that have immagrated here, we are primarily English speaking people, so I do feel that English needs to be our National Language!

Answer 2

U.S. English points to a 2005 Zogby International poll showing that 79 percent of Americans support making English the official language of the United States, including more than two-thirds of Democrats and four-fifths of first- and second-generation Americans.

(CNSNews.com) - An amendment to the Senate immigration bill would make English the "national language of the United States." The Senate voted 63-34 to adopt the amendment, which was offered by Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.)

The measure declares that there is no affirmative right to receive services in languages other than English, except where required by federal law. In other words, the amendment is mostly symbolic -- it will not change the way the government prints documents or conducts business.

Legislation pending in the U.S. House of Representatives (H.R. 997) also would make English the official language; that bill now has about 150 co-sponsors.

More than half of the states have passed laws making English the official language.

The American Civil Liberties Union has successfully challenged some of those laws on the grounds that they unconstitutionally deny non-English speakers "fair and equal access to their government ." Official language laws make non-English speakers second-class citizens, the ACLU has argued.


English should be our National Language. but I suppose the ACLU will try to stop that too!

Answer 3

It already is the "primary" national language, i.e., most people in the US speak English.

I think people who immigrate here should learn the language. However, I don't believe it should be a law.

Answer 4

Which country are you talking about?

If it's the UK, Australia, Canada, N. Zealand, Ireland and the US, it is already!
Countries of the commonwealth do also have English as an official second or primary language.

Are you talking about an international primary language? Strongly disagree.

Answer 5

Seems like the only people that have problem with this are supporters of illegal immigration.
Got a lot of people in Seattle from Africa...they speak English well enough.
Worked with people from HONDURAS that have been here ten years and still can't communicate effectively.
And working with such people takes too much energy.
Gives me a headache.
Koreans right off the plane speak better English than a lot of the people from Latin America I have worked with and that have been here for years.
What are we going to do? Post signs in over 100 different languages?

Answer 6

I believe that our country is so diverse in nature that we need to have a language that is regarded as the true 'American' language. Although we accept so many immigrants from all over the world (that's what this country is all about) it is also important that we have things that unite us. It shouldn't be made in to law, per se, but it should be acknowledged as the primary language of the US.

Answer 7

Of course English should be our national language.

Answer 8

the usa speaks english because it goes back to the days when the uk had an empire and imposed its culture all over the world

Answer 9

works for me, but English being my only language that would be
my natural choice. i can understand why other nationalities may
not agree.

Answer 10

i don't care what people say.....america is an english speaking country.....all this spanish translation on every public sign is sickening....i don't go to a spanish speaking country expecting them to learn english for me....so they shouldn't expect us to learn spanish for them...

and the reason i'm speaking specifically about spanish is because that's where that whole issue came from