think before you answer the question. Don't tell me every one has to learn all the languages of the world. How many languages can one person learn? LOL
2006-07-07 11:11:04 · 8 answers · asked by sweeiepie 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Keep in mind i said nothing about the English language. Which the lady below seem to think i did.
Read carefully please!
2006-07-07 11:17:16 · update #1
Didn't wars get started because people couldn't communciate with each other?
think about it if you did some thing to other person and you were trying to make it better but the person doesn't understand you. couldn't that person get upset and do some thing stupid?
2006-07-07 11:21:04 · update #2
People are coming from all over the world to be here! land of the free people.
what say you?
2006-07-07 11:23:31 · update #3
Well, people can speak whatever language they want.
However, because this is an English-speaking majority country, and our government and everything is run in English, if people want to communicate with others, have a job, go to school, whatever, they need to learn English.
Public schools will teach all immigrant and non-English speaking students English. Immigrants can take adult literacy, ESL, community college classes and learn that way. Already, most countries teach English to their students in primary and secondary school.
2006-07-07 11:15:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
Well, to begin, "every one" is like saying "never" or "always". To answer your question if "every one" spoke a different language, then we could not communicate effectively. Some could probably communicate (eg. the one person who speaks Spanish with the one person who speaks Portugese, the Spanish speaking person could probably also speak to the Italian person, etc.) Probably too much thinking into this question.
I think that it is good for a person to learn various languages. If you go to a country like Switzerland that is surrounded by multiple countries with multiple languages and dialects, it is not uncommon to see/hear the variety everywhere you go, no problem. This is true of a lot of other countries. Take the US for example, with the mix of nationalities that make up this country, it should not be such a problem to accomodate the variety. English could be the primary language used without the need to remove the others. FYI, I am using the US as an example since you do not specify which country you are from. lol!!!
2006-07-07 18:34:19 · answer #2 · answered by pdljmpr 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, it isn't like English is even the official language of the U.S, as I recall we don't have one. However, I think it would be easier if people made an attempt to learn the language that the majority of us speak. At the same time though, I would say that we can't just expect everyone to speak our language. We need to open our minds and they need to open up english for dummies.
2006-07-07 18:15:32 · answer #3 · answered by newsblews361 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are countries with a lot more languages to contend with and they manage. India has 22 government-recognized national languages and far more unofficial ones
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_India
I don't think it's unreasonable to encourage immigrants to make some effort to learn enough English to get by, but I disagree very strongly with the people here in Arizona who want to punish Hispanic children for speaking Spanish on the playground at recess. They can conduct classes in English if they want to, but kids should be free to be themselves on their own time.
2006-07-07 18:27:50 · answer #4 · answered by ConcernedCitizen 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are over 300 million people in the US. In order for "every one in this country" to "speak a different language", there would have to be 300 million languages. I don't think there are that many languages, so the problem you pose can never happen.
2006-07-07 18:19:31 · answer #5 · answered by dan7000 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
English will always be the common language, with Spanish as a strong second. That's just demographically what iis happening.
2006-07-07 18:17:47 · answer #6 · answered by oldbuckhorn 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It does make life hard trying to read the instructions for different things as the print is so small when you have to print it in so many lanuages. It would be much easier for some to learn one language then for all to learn many.
2006-07-07 18:19:35 · answer #7 · answered by Ibredd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
miming ha ha. Reasonably, we could create a national language and make everyone learn it, but some people are lazy and wouldn't want to do it.
2006-07-07 18:17:06 · answer #8 · answered by zouk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋