What are some good reasons why someone can can't learn english in the USA?

Question

There are thousands of people who don't know English in the USA. Most of them know that the official language is English. Some have reasons not to learn the language. What are some good reasons?

Answer 1

There are a number of reasons for it. I used to live in South Florida where there are a lot of people who can't speak English even though they've lived in the area for years. Most of them are concentrated into their little enclaves where they only associate with other people who speak their language. Then they also have TV stations, radio stations, magazines, and signs that are in their language. Since that area has a large number of Spanish-speaking people, they can always find someone who speaks the language if they need to. Many people, especially adults, often feel that they're too old to learn a new language so they don't even try. They use their children to interpret for them. All I can say is that the reason more immigrants don't learn English is because they don't have to.

Answer 2

The reason people don't learn English.

You don't need to know that much English to do simple low level jobs. There are also large communities of people who speak another language other than English like Chinese and Spanish that can support themselves.

Answer 3

Some may be immigrants who work long hours in a sweatshop with other immigrants from their own country, and then eat/sleep in immigrant communities with shops kept by others who speak their language. They would have little time or opportunity to attend classes or even to mingle socially with Americans who could have provided them with an opportunity to learn the language.

Answer 4

I'd say its because they hear one thing in english and people say its right, then someone else confuses them by saying its something else. its irritating. i wouldnt learn english if people did that to me. Thats what happened to me. People kept telling me these things that were supposedly english but it turns out it wasnt. I almost stopped learning. But i didnt. I got actual help for it. it worked.

Answer 5

linguistically languages are divided in to families and it is easy for a person to learn a language which is in the family of his own language, languages which are not in the family are very hard to learn, for example a Chinese person will learn Vietnamese, Korean and Japanese very easily but English is very hard for him, in grammar and pronunciation.
i have a B.A in English language and it is very hard for me to pronounce letters like Americans. in addition, in my language we say for example car red which mean red car in English, the term fifteen hundred in English is soooo funny if you it in my language, you have to say one thousand and five hundred , this makes people confused and sometimes they give up in learning English.

Answer 6

Heard of the saying when in Rome do as the Romans? Well it should apply to all aspects.

Answer 7

because living in native brothers community

Answer 8

There ARE no good reasons.

maybe just blind ignorance