2006-07-22 19:42:36 · 13 answers · asked by Brothaman 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
Well with Hispanics becoming a majority in this country, I don't see why we can't have two recognized languages.
Switzerland, which happens to be one of the most educated countries in the world and a true democracy, has 3 official languages. German, French and Italian, the reason is they share borders with those countries and recognize them as majorities in their country.
It would do all of us some good, to know two languages.
2006-07-22 19:56:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 6⤋
The chance is 100%, regardless of competition from other languages.
Latin and Sansrkit are not spoken anymore either. Languages are born, get old, and die.
Our social planners prefer English. The immigrants' kids go to public school, and learn English there if nowhere else. However, they will make changes to the language, and some of those changes may become permanent, such as additions to the English language such as Spanish words like "macho", "gracias", "compadre", "andale" (I think Speedy Gonzales had something to do with this), etc, which are heard fairly often in US English and are almost universally understood.
2006-07-22 19:50:47 · answer #2 · answered by Atash 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Virtually every business person in the world already speaks English. English is universally thought of as the language any non-English speaker should learn. Chinese and Spanish do have huge native speaker populations but so does English. Don't forget India speaks English.
2006-07-22 19:48:54 · answer #3 · answered by C B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOL, no, There are about 30 million mexicans in usa. there are 270 or 290 American speaking 'Americans' and some of those are legal mexicans. In 1776, the US congress met for the first time, and the main agenda was the 'official' language of the newly formed confederate. The congress voted. The choices came down to 1: German, 2 English. English won by ONE vote.
2006-07-22 19:49:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Spanish is the language of bull fighters
and drug dealers.
There is no academic reason for learning Spanish.
French is the language of diplomacy and finance.
Latin is still the language of law and medicine
German and Russian are good languages for engineering.
Greek is the language of biblical scholars.
I guess spanish would be helpful if you
plan to only eat fast food,
or supervise coolie labor,
or work with spanish speakers.
English has replaced French in almost every venue
except romance.
In every Asian country -
ENGLISH is what they learn after their native language.
Learning Spanish in China, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and on and on just doesn't happen.
English is the language of International Business
and is used in nearly every
International Business transaction to negotiate the deal.
International flight crews speak English
because the control towers are operated in ENGLISH.
Any butthole Mexican who comes to the U.S.
and doesn't learn English
is just being an @$$.
2006-07-22 20:09:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Assuming you mean in the U.S.A.
Unlikely.
There is a push for a constitutional ammendment to make the official language of the U.S. English. It is costing a fortune to print government documents in dozens of languages to appease special action groups.
2006-07-22 19:51:27 · answer #6 · answered by Hk45Tactical 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-15 02:45:27 · answer #7 · answered by woodie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Theoretically, eventually, possibly. However, it would be generations from now and would assume all hispanics retained their language through the generations, which does not always happen.
2006-07-22 19:46:36 · answer #8 · answered by DAR 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The majority of americans don't speak spanish. Nor is that about to change, not in our lifetimes...if anything, Mexico's going to learn english...
2006-07-23 02:00:16 · answer #9 · answered by gokart121 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
as far as i kno, the US has always been a bilingual country since the southwest was spanish-speaking when it was annexed to the US. Also puerto rico is spanish speaking and that's an american island.
2006-07-22 19:48:05 · answer #10 · answered by sly 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Big chance
There are schools in southern USA that only teach in Spanish now
2006-07-22 19:46:11 · answer #11 · answered by Echidna 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋