So, ILEGAL IMMIGRANTS shouldn't have to learn english, huh, then no translation then!?

Question

If you don't want to learn english, fine, but then we shouldn't have to translate everything into other languages for them if they don't want to take the time to learn the national language for the country that they reside in. It is completely IGNORANT to believe that if I were to move to another country that I should EXPECT them to teach me, to have driving test, as well as anything else in MY homeland language. This is crazy, what the heck is wrong with people. You don't go to another country and expect them to cater to you, just boggles my mind?

Oh, and FYI, I am not taking any foriegn language class because I don't plan on going to another country, dork. I understand the language fluently for the country that I live in, America. English is the second most spoken language in the world. But soon it will also be the second most spoken language in this country. That's sad.

Answer 1

I agree 110%

Answer 2

Even though I agree with you 100% on the issue at hand, I do have to put my two cents in. I worked for AT&T Long Lines before you could direct dial other countries (shows my age, yes, but bear with me) and I was always flabbergasted that the operators in the Carribbean had to speak and understand English but no one asked us to even learn simple words of their language. (I set about learning both Spanish and French so that I could converse with them but I was the exception.) How arrogant is this country? We want English from every country in the world (India, China, Spain, Germany, Japan) but nothing from them. No wonder their opinion of Americans is so low!

I don't remember voting on the bilingual language on important documents and signs, so I feel it should be taken off. Americans should have the right to decide what language should be used in their own country. Just as all the other countries should have the right to decide theirs. (St. Kitts was the only country who refused to learn English, then. Go for it! I say.)

Answer 3

Illegal immigrants shouldn't be here at all.
Legal immigrants should attempt to learn English. It is hard to learn especially older people but they should try. My neighbors are from China a women, her husband and her parents. The women speaks pretty well, her husband not very well at all but he will try and between that and drawing pictures we figure out what they are getting at. Her parents are pretty old and don't probably go out much without someone to help them. I don't think they will ever be good enough to explain what is wrong to a doctor. They can bring their daughter to appointments but it would be nice to have interpreters if they had an emergency.
Chinese happens to be the second most common language here, but I don't think they teach it in elementary school, the next generation if they have children will be Americans and speak English.
I met a women from El Salvador and her son who is a 3 year old American, she spoke English pretty well but kept talking to the son in Spanish. The boy needs to learn English, she told him my cat was a hombre. But I talked to her son even though he didn't speak much and he will hear English in school and in the neighborhood. I bet he will be speaking more English that Spanish as soon as he gets in school.
Not teaching the young people English is handicapping them.

Answer 4

I agree...Spanish speaking phone recordings, signs, and tv programs..it should all be taken away. This is not to be mean, it is only to force immigrants to learn the English language.


Candence_lost: I have taken two years of spanish, but have forgotten it because I don't use it. However, in this country the primary language is English. Telling us to learn all the languages in the world is being a hypocrite when we are in our primary country. I have traveled to other countries and have never expected them to cater to me in English. They should have to learn the primary language in the country they want to live in. There is only a 15% hispanic population here. They should not be catered to.

Answer 5

I agree. Tonight I put a dinner in the microwave. The instructions were written in Spanish on the side of the box. To find the English ones you had to look all the way down in the corner on the back and get the magnifying glass. Crazy. If I would have seen that when I bought it,I wouldn't have. I don't like to give my money to a company that thinks it is necessary to put Spanish on the label.

Answer 6

my parents don't speak English 100% well but they try and my sister and brother try to talk to them in the language so they can learn.
i think you should learn English if your living in this country.

but you have to understand that the older the person gets the harder it is to learn anything new, unlike the younger kids who's brains are like sponges sucking in new information.

Answer 7

If I went to Mexico, I wouldn't expect them to speak English to me, so why am I expected to learn their language?

Answer 8

I agree!!

I teach in California and I can't stand to see young students come in to our schools unable to speak english. It takes them about two years in our schools to start learning in english, and in the mean time they are now two years behind. And what about all the extra educational $$ that go into teaching spanish speaking students AND parents?? It's not fair to OUR students and it isn't fair to those kids either.

Something has GOT TO GIVE on this illegal immigrant stuff!!!!

Answer 9

Very true. English is the established language of our country, and I am sick of them trying to turn it around on us. We should not have to "press One for English".

Answer 10

No common sense left in this country, its pretty apparent. Lets vote the fools out of office.