How many of you are bilingual, and think that English should be the official language of the US?

Question

My guess is that very few of the people pushing making ENGLISH as the official language, do so because they dont know any other languages and do not have an interest in learning them.

correction to statement above...I think that those who are NOT bilingual, are usually the ones that are trying to keep it English only.

Answer 1

I'm mono-lingual.

I do NOT think we should have an official language.

I do think it's it's in everyone's best interest for our schools to teach English to all.

I also think it's in everyone's best interest for as many Americans to speak other languages as possible.

Answer 2

a million. The Founding Fathers depending this us of a on English, French, German and Spanish. 2. authentic records are in dissimilar languages. 3. Why? 4. And this declare is depending upon what? And if a Vietnamese community needed bilingual instructions they could petition the school board. With adequate help and an instructor it will be carried out. 5. that's really backwards questioning. 6. It expenditures an same volume to write down them out in English because it does in Spanish. 7. you are able to request an authentic record in any language which include Braille. it isn't only constrained to Spanish yet because it truly is the 2d maximum commonplace language contained in the U.S. it in basic terms is sensible. 8. Many places alongside the French Canadian border have French conversing human beings on team. lots of the Asian elements in major cities have those who talk the dominate language of the realm, it truly is no longer unique to Spanish. 9. Ever been to a Chinatown area of a community? Or little Saigon? Or little Italy? again, it truly is no longer unique to easily Spanish. 10. it quite is only a racist statement. Many Spanish conversing human beings in this us of a are properly off highly powerful company human beings.

Answer 3

I am not bilingual. First, I have never had the need nor the desire. I respectfully disagree with your reason why someone like me believes the English should be the official language.
First, this is America and English is the language we have always spoken. I think it is impossible to believe that every person who wants English as our country's language do not know another language. There are probably millions of highly educated people who know 2 or 3 languages that still want our national language to be English.
Do you have a study that shows this or are you just upset because Americans want English as the official language? I know I will research this; just for my own knowledge.
I think if a person lives in Italy, and the issue came up, would prefer to have Italian be their country's language, as would Russia, Iraq or Africa. They are not going to give up their language because some Americans have moved there and want to make English their official language. Doesn't sound right to me.
This only became an issue when one of the Mexican advocate groups wanted Spanish to become our nations official language.
It would be the same if we went into Mexico and demanded English become their official language and Spanish second. They, or any other country would be upset about this and fight for it. Americans have always spoke English so it was never an issue to legally make it our national language; until now.
Thank you for your question and allowing others to weight in on this issue.

Answer 4

I'm Anglo, speak 12 languages, and belong to a fellowship that is mostly immigrants of color and the language of worship is not English. Nevertheless, I identify myself as Anglo, not white, which means that I am proud of the English language and our yet troubled system of common law jurisprudence. I live in California and think that while English should be the official language of the United States, no high school student in California should be allowed to graduate high school until he can speak both the Queen's English and the King's Castillian Spanish fluently. As Americans we still have so much potential, but we must change course and resist the urge to turn into the savages that we are becoming with Our West Texas Ebonics speaking Commander in Chief.

Answer 5

I think English should be the official language, and I speak German.

However, given how little it means in places like California where English already IS the official language, I don't think the whole issue is worth fighting about.

Answer 6

Spanish language is affiliated with spanish blood. I do not care( to put it mildly ) for spanish blood because of what they are currently doing to the Mexican Indians.I am bilingual and just about full blooded Azteca. English is my official language.

Answer 7

You don't have to be bilingual to live in the USA, because our national language is English.
Bilingual does not mean "Spanish and English", it can mean Mandarin and French, or German and English.

The Constitution of the United States of America is written in English, not Spanish.
The Bill of Rights is written in English, not Spanish.
The US legal system is based on English, not Spanish.
All federal, state, and county courts conduct all hearings and trials in English, not Spanish.
All USA federal, state, county, parish, and city laws are written in English.
All federal and state legislation in the USA is conducted, written and recorded in English.
As thus, the nation of the United States of America, the states of the United States, all counties within the states, and all cities within, are English speaking, as having set a precidence, and having conducted business by use of that precidence for 500 years.

This will not change, accept it and adjust your life to embrace it.
Spanish will never be the language of the United States.
If you prefer to not learn English and would be happier in a Spanish speaking nation, there are many countries which have Spanish as their national language, you are free to immigrate there to live.
Bye bye.

Answer 8

I'm trilingual.Look at all the European countries that have two or more official languages.There is nothing wrong with speaking different languages,it opens closed minds.People in this country need to open their minds.

Answer 9

Every other country produces bilingual children. I think it does wonders for your intelligence. I don't think it's necessary to say "English is the official language," because it is; that's a given.

Answer 10

i honestly dont care. if english becomes the official language, theres still gonna be people speaking other languages. i dont think its gonna make much of a difference.