by the way immigration is in the us do you think english will still be the defacto language in a 100 years?

Question

If not what do you think it will be Spanish, French, German, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese

do you think the us will become a
bi-lingual country

Answer 1

The US already is a bilingual country try calling your bank to hear english press 1.. every food product is basically in english and spanish.. a lot of drive thru's the same way.

Answer 2

Will it still be the de-facto language? - Don't think so; anytime I begin to think otherwise, a quick trip to the grocery store or Mall sets me straight again. Face it, when we have Spanish-speakers breeding 8 times faster when we do, the language shift is probably inevitable.

Will America become bi-lingual? Pretty much is technically, and I'm sure that when the Mestizo population grows large enough, they may start demanding the rights to national Spanish recognition (as official language) - mostly because we were too pussy to write English in before that ever happened.

What I find hilarious about the Mexicans is how much they love to talk about the "gringo", when they're USING ONE OF HIS DAMN LANGUAGES!!

Face it, "eses" - you're speaking the Conquistador's language!!! You may think your Spanish is native to you - but you're sadly mistaken.

Answer 3

Hello,

I think that movie Blade Runner may yet hit the nail on the head. The language in LA 100 + years in the future was a mixture of English, Spanish and Chinese all reduced to a common pigeon jargon on the streets.

Regards,

Michael Kelly

Answer 4

Yes, because I think Indians (who speak English) and Chinese will far outnumber Spanish speaking people here, and those cultures don't try to impose language on their new country. They are more like Europeans feeling the immigrant should speak the language of their adopted land.

And we can't be bilingual. We have over 300 languages spoken here. Regardless of all other considerations, it would be politically impossible to pick a second over the others.

Answer 5

Spanish, and that is unfortunate because the whole constitution and all legal documents, laws, and bills, are in English. Who is going to go back and translate all of that? Especially when there are english words that have no meaning in spanish and vice versa. They can be translated, but will lose the definity in the meaning of some things, and that cannot be avoided.

Answer 6

Yes, English will be spoken in 100 years, and Spanish will still be spoken in Mexico. Not scared, but I belive this been going for over 150 years, but by that time the govemrent will realize its just better just to leave border like it was before ww1

Answer 7

it should be
my ancestors came straight off the boat from germany and the first thing they did was learn english
i today still eat alot of german foods and believe that keeping part of your heritage is important,no matter what it is, but my family believed it was so important to become american beause the freedom was what they were after i guess they considered if they shouldn't need to make changes they should have stayed in germany. the united is the most amazing country in the world, a true melting pot . i just wonder what we will become someday when noone can understand anyone

Answer 8

defacto language? i agree that english has been the primary language of trade & economics for over 500 years (lingua franca) but i don't see it becoming a secondary anything anytime soon. you might want to, however, hone in in your chinese studies (mandarin) as that is the fastest rising language to date. i do believe english will be shared with mandarin chinese for entitlement. there are over 7 billion people on this fragile earth and slightly more than 2 billion are chinese.

Answer 9

In some cities I don't think it is now, and with the possible increase of hundreds of thousands of people that most likely don't speak a thing of English..... who knows.

Answer 10

Did you ever see the movie 'BLADE RUNNER' w/Harrison Ford? In that movie they spoke an interesting blend of Englsh, Spanish,7 Chinese.