Do you think that anyone that enters this country should be required to speak English?

Question

What is so difficult about this? If someone goes through all the trouble to get here why don't they learn or just try to use English?

Answer 1

Maybe they should be given a couple years to learn...but for them to come in..no. But I mean as a requirement, laws are already hard enough. And to answer your second questions, sometimes it isn't 'just' that easy. It's not about sitting down for an hour and learning it, many don't have the money, and others work too long. And I think you're wrong, almost every immigrant that I know has learned to speak English. People just generalize everybody to be the same, I don't expect anybody to learn my language, it makes me look better when I'm the one that knows how to speak various amounts of languages and are able to communicate to more people.

Answer 2

Some English would, help those who come over here that need help to start their new lives, there not always others around that speak their language and they might need some English to get started.

Answer 3

I don't think they should have to know English just to enter our country. If I wanted to visit Italy, I would hope I wouldn't have to know Italian. At the same time if I planned on living there, I think I should have to learn the language. That goes for here too.

Answer 4

YES,,,, if you go to other countries and dont speak their language your in trouble.. cause even if they speak some english they arent gonna speak english to you.. they will just say NO speak english.. This is a english speaking country and they should learn before they come here legally or illegally.

Answer 5

I think to live in America you have to learn English or you would have a hard time making it here. I sure as hell am not going to learn Spanish.

Answer 6

there is nothing wrong with speaking another language as long as you try to learn English to communicate but this country wants to do the opposite I went to a doctors office went into an examination room I looked at the signs hanging on the wall they were all in Spanish nothing in English but what can we do when no one listens to us

Answer 7

It sure help since that what we speak. The 1s that don't want to speak English are trying 2 change our way of living? Since it's a requirement 2 get citizenship.

Answer 8

Ok well think of it this way...say you move to Mexico and you don't know Spanish, how long do you think it would take you to learn it, would you seriously be able to learn it fluently in a month or two...probably not. In general people dont absolutly refuse to learn english...its difficult, and when you move to a barrio you can get by without it, there's very little exposure. So yeah people are trying, but i think people need to be a little less cocky about it and rember that it would be pretty hard to learn another language just like that...

Answer 9

Que? Si,mi hablo espanol,por que estudias espanol? In America habla ingles? Nadie habla espanol.....And so I dont get a violation for the wrong language,It was a statement that if I,an American citizen can learn spanish then why cant they give me the courtesy of learning english?

Answer 10

if they dont know english then give them sometime after a couple of months then theyll start to be able to know english thats what my parents had to do when they immigrated from Ecuador but since its easy to get through speakin spanish then theres no reason to start right away but with the materials being given like ingles sin barreras then theyll be speakin the language muy pronto