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Just when Illinois couldn't get more pro illegal I found I was wrong. A local college has skilled trades like HVAC and electrician classes and are hiring bilingual teachers! No doubt they will offer them financial aid too.
This is appalling. What ever happened to learning English first, then taking college courses? That's the way it's been for years and has worked just fine. So, now they are offering classes taught in Spanish. Then what's next? Classes taught in other languages like, for example, Arabic? I ask rhetorically...
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And often times people claiming to be bilingual are barely literate in English. In college I had some professors I could barely understand -- make learning about things such as quantum mechanics a bit difficult.
Just when Illinois couldn't get more pro illegal I found I was wrong. A local college has skilled trades like HVAC and electrician classes and are hiring bilingual teachers! No doubt they will offer them financial aid too.
Why are you assuming that there are no legal Latino residents taking classes at this college? I am sure many of them speak crappy English or not at all.
Why are you assuming that there are no legal Latino residents taking classes at this college? I am sure many of them speak crappy English or not at all.
Mick
That's NOT our problem. Why I say that is many kids in the US learn and speak Ok or better English in less than 5 years. I knew a dude from Vietnam who was about 12 when his family came here legally and but 18 he talked like a non "Southern" anglo white person.
Way too many even US born Hispanic kids sound like they came here a few months ago. That's NOT acceptable because almost ALL the US born kids of NON Hispanic legal aliens talk proper.
Just when Illinois couldn't get more pro illegal I found I was wrong. A local college has skilled trades like HVAC and electrician classes and are hiring bilingual teachers! No doubt they will offer them financial aid too.
And.....theres nothing wrong with that. Learning a language is a skill, you can either learn it or not, personally i think hs students should have to learn french and spanish.
That's NOT our problem. Why I say that is many kids in the US learn and speak Ok or better English in less than 5 years. I knew a dude from Vietnam who was about 12 when his family came here legally and but 18 he talked like a non "Southern" anglo white person.
Way too many even US born Hispanic kids sound like they came here a few months ago. That's NOT acceptable because almost ALL the US born kids of NON Hispanic legal aliens talk proper.
Talk proper? It is better for one to say, "speak well". People should not criticize those with language issues when they also cannot speak the language perfectly.
This is appalling. What ever happened to learning English first, then taking college courses? That's the way it's been for years and has worked just fine. So, now they are offering classes taught in Spanish. Then what's next? Classes taught in other languages like, for example, Arabic? I ask rhetorically...
Yeah. It's the trades requiring these teachers which is even worse. Knowing Illinois next thing they'll have classes only Spanish speakers can take.
Why are you assuming that there are no legal Latino residents taking classes at this college? I am sure many of them speak crappy English or not at all.
Mick
Because I'm sure they would already know English. If not then they should know it before taking classes.
What is the hang up with people acquiring the skill of being multi-lingual?
I wish I was. I foolishly paid scant attention in language classes, doing just enough to get by.
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