they need to speak english.?

Question

how many of you think that if you are not a native of the US meaning that you were not born here you should be able to speak fluent english and be a citizen of this country.

im not saying that you should give up your believes and heritage and holidays. im saying if you are going to live here you must be legal.

forget that i said fluent. at least basic english.

Answer 1

I do. I would not go to some other country and expect them to know English, so why do other people come here and expect us to know their language and cater to them? I think that is just unfair. I am tired of calling companies that I pay for services and not being able to understand the representatives because they cannot speak English. I ask them to transfer me to someone I can understand or I take my business elsewhere. That is my right.
I feel that if a person wants citizenship in this country, they should be able to at least have a basic working knowledge of English. If they don't want to learn it, they are always free to go back where they came from. I think this country's immigration policies have been MUCH too lenient for MUCH too long. I feel we need to close our borders to everyone the way others have. I am not talking about become complete isolationists, but we need to start taking care of our own people before we give handouts to others.

Answer 2

Assimilation! Learning how to communicate properly and effectively is the first step towards becoming a part of the culture. It's good for the immigrant and good for the adoptive country. I say this based on my own experience as an immigrant. I'm not sure whether or not I'll stay here and finally become a citizen, but I do know that learning how to speak and write in English has been the best gift of all; I'm able to share with the people here and make myself at home. I can also contribute as a member of society. Everybody should be an immigrant at some point in their lives, it's a very humbling and interesting experience. But yeah, definitely, learn the language! Keep the accent, though...

Answer 3

It's a matter of circumstance. Right when people move to the US, they will not be fluent. It takes time to learn a new language. My grandparents, my dad, and my uncle moved from Finland many years back. They knew no english, knew no other people. It took a few years for them to fully learn the language and find successful jobs. Yes, they are citizens now, but for several years they were here as illegal immigrants.

Near where I live, there is a large Hispanic population. Many of them have tough backgrounds, and even though they are earning less than minimum wage, it is still far better than their former homes. I think speaking english does not need to be a prerequisite for living in this country. But it should happen at some point, it just won't happen automatically.

If we try to make everyone speak english as soon as they enter the country, we will see a drop in immigration to the US, meaning a drop in employment, and a possible drop in the economy. And how are you supposed to enforce that kind of rule, that everyone must speak english?

Answer 4

First of all, I'm Japanese and live in Japan. I neither want to get the U.S. citizenship nor speak fluent English. Since English is not my native language, I cannot fully express my thoughts in English. I will, however, try my best to express my opinion so that you can understand the plight of those who are unfortunate.

Your question reveals that you do not have enough education or enough experience. Even if you have a college degree, that doesn't mean you are intelligent. The saddest thing is that you do not know you are ignorant. I pity you. You poor thing.

People from the Third World come to the U.S. legally or illegally and work from sunrise to midnight. Most of those immigrants work for minimum and even sub-minimum wages in workplaces that do not require to speak English. (ie. cook, busboy, pool cleaner, etc.)

They just do not have time, money, and opportunity to learn English. Period.

I hope you are just immature right now and will someday learn to understand and help other unfortunate people and help make the world a better place for everyone. We are brothers and sisters on this planet, Calvin.

I bet you have never been to abroad. Go see the world. Get some experiences of different cultures, different people, and different perspectives of world views. Broaden your horizons!

Answer 5

Australia can have signed a UN treaty obligating the nation to take a few refugees or asylum seekers. Maybe politicians are looking to win the votes of ethnic corporations through allowing them to into the nation. Maybe they're on your nation illegally. You are being paid through the hour, correct? So in case your retail retailer isn't busy, take time and provide an explanation for that costs are in no way negotiated. That creates no monetary loss for you. Or, if their snatch of our language is deficient, simply say "I'm sorry, I do not recognize you" after which provide no additional reaction. Immigrants must be inspired to talk their international languages to their possess youngsters, so the ones youngsters will probably be multilingual (an excessively priceless talent). But the federal government must make English fluency a demand for any residency.

Answer 6

i know what you think you said; but what you actually wrote means that everyone on earth should speak english and become a us citizen.

the us' problem isn't that it has a handful of immigrants who are fluent only in their native language; it is more that the country is full of klutzes like you who can't express themselves properly even in english.

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and when calvin saw my answer he sent me the following yahoo!message:

{Message: I know what you think you read but you are probly an imagrant and cant read well. i didnt say everyone in the world should. not everyone in the world is going to come here. it should be only the people who come to the united states to live there lives. you need to be more open minded to others oppinions. }

now i can see seven gross grammatical errors and three semantic non-sequiturs here. but calvin imagines he is able to speak english!

isn't he a funny man!

Answer 7

I'm absolutely agree with you, I think everybody who move to live to other country must speak properly the language of that country, of course you may not make them to speak it at 100% perfect because most of native doesn't do that but they must be able of understand others and make themselves to be understood... In Spain, we don't regularize that and some days you may not find anybody who speak Spanish... In this way, in some years we will forget Spanish to learn Arabic and Romanian...

Answer 8

If anyone decide to live in the country, where English is official language, he/she should learn this language by sure. Otherwise it is disrespect towards this country. The other thing is that this person will not be able to have quality life without knowledge of language, her will think in isolation.

Answer 9

LOL I'm native now but my Great Grandfather was German. He was an illegal and didn't speak english. I don't speak a whit of German and regret it. But I do think they should be able to speak english fairly fluently enough to communicate what is needed. It's the same if I were to go to another country.

Answer 10

I agree totally!!! Would you move to another country and not at least try to learn the language? Of course not. So, I think anyone living in the US should try to learn at least the basics in English.