2007-05-26 11:50:28 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
I already speak three , so what was your point.
2007-05-26 11:55:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
If live in the United States, I speak English as this is the language of the land. Get it? If I temporarily travel to another land (to visit), I still speak English. Why would I come out of myself for another? If it is hard for me to communicate in a foreign land, I am going home. Its the right thing to do. And if I am talking to an illegal alien, it will stand to reason why you ask this question. Get a life.
2007-05-26 19:17:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I know another language, and a smattering of French, as well. Spanish isn't the other language I know.
However, we give bilingual education to those who come illegally, so we can't afford it for our own children at the ages when people most easily learn.
2007-05-26 19:28:09 · answer #3 · answered by DAR 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cause it's HARD! I took classes and tried and tried. I couldn't learn Spanish. Some people have a harder time learning new languages. Especially adults.
And I don't want the illegals here, but I do understand their problems with English. It's fricken hard.
2007-05-26 19:13:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The real question is, what IS your real question?
I took Latin in high school, French and Spanish in college. I studied Korean when I was stationed in Korea, I studied German when I was stationed in Germany. My wife is a Filipino, I study her dialect as well as Tagalog. I have learned "traveler's dialog" in more than a dozen languages.
English is, by far, the most descriptive language on Earth, with a vocabulary of hundreds of thousands of words. French, on the other hand, has a vocabulary of 60,000 words! Come on, Samuel Johnson had a vocabulary, himself, of more than 100,000 words, more than most languages by far today.
2007-05-26 19:06:02 · answer #5 · answered by Nothingusefullearnedinschool 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Public school attempts this, usually French or Spanish, occasionally latin. I think thats enough though. After school, you're too busy at your job to learn another language, and quite frankly, this skill would 99% of the time be irrelavant to your field.
2007-05-26 18:54:12 · answer #6 · answered by Serpico7 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Who illegals or Americans? If you are talking to Americans, why should we change and have to learn another language for people who want to come here, and I mean all immigrants not just Mexicans.
2007-05-26 18:55:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I have!
If I decided to move to France I would learn French, to Italy Italian, Greece Greek.
I would not expect others to have to speak (or print signage) in English just because I can't speak their laungage, if I LIVE in a country I would have to learn the local language.
2007-05-26 18:56:02 · answer #8 · answered by Insane 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because the average american in the average school system can barely even read,write and speak their own language let alone someone else's.In Europe the average european in the average school system is required to learn a second language,which they do.
2007-05-26 19:09:08 · answer #9 · answered by Georgewasmyfavorite 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I try to learn another language but we should'nt have to. People coming here need to learn English.
2007-05-26 18:58:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I tried to learn the 'unwritten language of love' but now the restraining order stopped that...
2007-05-26 19:24:36 · answer #11 · answered by apluribus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋