This American at least spent a year in a non-English speaking country, and was amazed at the number of middle aged people who told me that they had never actually had a conversation with an American before, because they had never before met one who could speak German.
I also got to see the more typical American tourists who, when it seems that the waiter doesn't understand English, just start shouting (in English).
I'm surprised there's not a Russian section, actually.
And I apologize for my countryman who wrote all that about your letters being backwards. He's just afraid of people speaking other languages, because he's sure they're all talking about HIM. It's an ego problem.
2007-09-09 06:07:27
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answered by oimwoomwio 7
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Personally, I believe that students in the U.S. should be required to take a second language, be it Spanish, Russian, German, Japanese, Chinese - it doesn't matter.
This would not only help the student understand things out side their immediate sphere (learning a language will also require you to learn about the culture), but it also changes the way you actually think and interpret things.
As for Americans being foolish and dull. Have you been to the U.S.?
Yes, many things we do appear to be foolish. However, that is just the surface. Once you get to know a people, you will see that perceptions of them change.
Dull? Americans are a lot of things - dull is NOT a word that usually comes to mind when discussing what we are.
And please remember this - that English (not necessarily American English) is the language of business.
2007-09-09 05:52:46
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answered by nickap2000 2
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think of that 21 million white jap Europeans had helped themselves to the U. S. without criminal permission. enable's say all of them artwork affordably using fact they do no longer pay taxes. They use tax payer funded centers like faculties, WIC, roads, FD, PD, prisons, and that they deliver what little extra money they do have returned to Slovakia, Croatia or everywhere. so as that they are displacing low experienced American workers, no longer making an investment interior the centers they use and exporting extra money than they positioned returned into the economic device. additionally think of that as a substitute of gaining expertise of to speak English they have been stressful that the U. S. learn how to speak Polish, Czech or Russian. i think of maximum white human beings might have all of the comparable problems with those imaginary unlawful immigrants as they do those that take place to be brown. It additionally would not help that they are by in large misogynist, homophobic and bigoted against non-Latinos.
2016-10-10 06:21:31
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answered by ? 3
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It's OUR country, we speak ENGLISH, you want to talk to us, do so in our language. When the Russians stop turning your letters around backwards, then perhaps we will talk to you.
Yeah, we are real foolish here in America, stop by one of our grocery stores, you will see more food in one day than you will see in one of your own grocery stores in an entire year.
It must take real foolishness to feed our people, and all of your women advertise to find American husbands, why do they do that? Because they want a chance at having a real LIFE!
2007-09-09 05:55:06
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answered by justgetitright 7
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Foolish and dull to speak their own language?
Sprechen sie Deutch?
Yo hablo Español?
No? you must be so foolish and dull.
2007-09-09 06:06:04
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answered by mymadsky 6
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Why is Russia so back-assed and third world? Go back to Russia and eat your potato for dinner. I will eat my beef roast, watch my 500 channel cable TV in my air conditioned room and enjoy my superior lifestyle.
We Speak English! Learn it or be left behind.
2007-09-09 06:12:36
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answered by ? 6
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Request one. Maybe they don't think there are enough people who speak Russian to make it available.
2007-09-09 05:59:26
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answered by BekindtoAnimals22 7
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Then try someone else's rather then ours...
2007-09-09 10:39:14
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answered by Indigo 7
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It is his observation
2007-09-09 05:50:41
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answered by Rana 7
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