Spanish citizens?

Question

should they learn english...or should americans learn spainish?

Answer 1

As mentioned, a 'Spanish' citizen would be a citizen of Spain.
You could say 'hispanic' citizens of the U.S., but a person can be 'hispanic' without necessarily speaking Spanish. You could say 'latino' but that would include, at the very least (depending on which definition of the word you take) people with ancestry of Portuguese-speaking or Spanish-speaking origins.
What your question seems to ask, is if 'Spanish-speaking' citizens of the U.S. should learn English.

Yes. When anyone goes to any country to reside, he should learn the language of that country. Though the U.S. has no official declaration of any 'official language,' it is understood to be English. However, we need to keep a few things in mind...

BENEFITS OF BILINGUALISM
Though people should learn English if they live in the U.S., this does not mean that monolingual English-speakers should write-off the importance of languages OTHER THAN English. Much of the time, monolingual English-speakers seem to think that English is 'it,' and that everyone should just learn to speak English. This is an erroneous and pompous attitude. Second language learning is extremely important, and aside from the fact that our European neighbors COMMONLY require two or even three languages beginning in the elementary schools, fluent bilingualism has been shown to increase cognitive problem-solving abilities and to delay the onset of dementia. Knowing at least two languages also allows one to access a much wider range of resources in written text, to meet more people, make friends who would normally be inaccessible due to a language barrier, and to effectively understand a different way of perceiving the world through language. Bilingualism is also good for business, and makes travel more enjoyable and safe.

One more thing to keep in mind is that people can’t just come to the US and immediately ‘pick up’ on English. Very often, their places of employment will be run by people who speak Spanish, and, even if the employers speak English with the employees, they don’t make resources available to help the employees effectively learn English. Some learn enough English to ‘get by,’ but without good classes and a mentoring program (which can be found, but again, not everywhere) it is unrealistic to expect a person to just ‘learn’ English, without help. I HAVE known people who learned to speak English, but absolutely refused unless there was an emergency, because it embarrassed them, or because they were too shy. But they got citizenship and live in the U.S. now, and so at this point I would agree that not working on their English is a shameful thing.

Yes, people should learn English in the U.S., but then again, don’t be too quick to judge that their efforts are inadequate.
And it would benefit us as a nation if we were to put more emphasis on second language learning, and actively pursue it.

Answer 2

I think that everybody should learn another language. I mean spanish citizens should learn English and Americans should learn spanish. Everybody will get along and be able to communicate better.

Answer 3

hey I think we the spanish citizens must learn english... It's the international languge.. in my case I'm using different ways to learn english such as reading, writting and talking to people who do speak the language...

Answer 4

XDDDD

OMG, at least tell me that you already know that a "Spanish citizen" is someone from Spain, a Spaniard.

Answer 5

i believe americans should learn english and stop looking at us crazy because we have our own language and they don't understand us.

Answer 6

It should be both ways, I think.

Answer 7

both

Answer 8

they shouldnt be here at all