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Actually it isn't. It requires a part of the brain to learn a language. the same part of the brain that helps you read and write. Some people can't even speak or write English correctly (and it's their native language) and you want them to learn another language.
Its not lame excuses or laziness. Some people are just born to learn another language (speaking and writing), some can only learn to speak it, and some like me, can only learn to read and write another language, and speaking it can make us become flustered.
since we do not have an official language, there is nothing in the sentence that is remotely true. Businesses cater to their clientele. If their clientele is majority Korean speaking, then that language would be used first. Majority of Korea town, Los Angeles business' signs are in Korean, with the "English" version in smaller print below it.
As for govt, their job is to provide access to everyone to resources that the PUBLIC (and public is a conundrum of various cultures of people who speak a multitude of languages) easily. Not make it difficult.
Most people can learn another language and when immigrants come here and say they can't learn our language it is laziness and a refusal to do so, nothing else in most cases.
So just who are business catering to in Spanish? Most Hispanic-Americans know how to speak English. No, what it is is catering to illegal aliens and those Hispanic-Americans who prefer everything in Spanish for them even though they know English and that is a non-assimilation factor, plain and simple.
You will have to pick up some Spanish if you want work done.
We have to write "Basura" on our boxes so the cleaning people know they are to be thrown out.
Don't really know why though..if I leave an empty box next to the garbage can it's garbage..right ?
so? some people are just not born to understand or learn another language. GEE, ain't that a crisis.
Like someone people can't understand math beyond basic algebra (or in some cases 2+2 as Ive seen in some cashiers, who have to pull out calculators to figure out how to give change on a $10 bill for a $3.65 purchase), learning a new language can be QUITE difficult for some people.
my ex's father has lived in Japan for 30 years. He has never mastered learning the language, despite being married to someone who speaks it fluently.
I don't expect an 83 year old woman to learn it quickly enough to do so.
This 83 year old lady lived in the U.S. for 18 years! Why didn't she learn English especially since she wanted to become a citizen?
Yes: MOST. Not all. And the older you get, the harder it is to learn a second language, no matter how long you live in another country.
As I stated, my ex's father has lived in Japan for 30 years. He has yet to learn Japanese. He can read a few signs, but Japan has converted most of their signs at train stations to Japanese and english, that there is no reason for him to do so. He teaches English as a second language so he speaks English all the time.
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and when immigrants come here and say they can't learn our language it is laziness and a refusal to do so, nothing else in most cases.
and you have interviewed every single immigrant to come to this conclusion?
Yes: MOST. Not all. And the older you get, the harder it is to learn a second language, no matter how long you live in another country.
As I stated, my ex's father has lived in Japan for 30 years. He has yet to learn Japanese. He can read a few signs, but Japan has converted most of their signs at train stations to Japanese and english, that there is no reason for him to do so. He teaches English as a second language so he speaks English all the time.
and you have interviewed every single immigrant to come to this conclusion?
No, I am talking about only those immigrants who say they can't or won't learn our language when in fact it is usually laziness or a refusal to do so. I have encountered a few of them and all they do is shrug their shoulders when you ask them why they don't speak English.
it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks. old people generally don't learn new languages well enough lol and + she was probably sick and taken care of by her family the whole time. She had very little need to learn english.
Why should English be the official language? Why not make Spanish the offical language?
Because this country was founded by "English" colonists. It wasn't founded by Spain, nor France, nor Germany (well, Germany didn't really exist then, but you get the point).
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