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Perfect? No. Functional? Yes. You don't need perfect grammar, and you can have an accent, but if you can't respond to basic questions, or provide basic information, it's an issue.
The owners know this, and it is not an issue with them.
Coming here at first? No. Everybody has to start someplace.
BUT.......they should be willing to learn at least enough to get along well in this country. They should assimilate and WANT to become AMERICAN.
Coming here--and expecting us to cater to you with interpreters and all that crap (including having to waste time and money printing ballots in other languages than English)--FORGET it.
Don't want to learn English or assimilate? Then GO HOME.
They don't have to master it but at least speak a little.
I got so frustrated several weeks ago...I called a Pizza Hut downtown to order pizzas for a client. Not one person could speak English. I asked for the manager and he couldn't even speak English. I ended up going somewhere else.
I've run into the same thing at McDonald's and other fast food services. If you are dealing day-to-day customers, please learn some English!
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if one is going to come to this country to work, they need to know enough english to at least communicate with the average US citizen.
Why? Because we're a land of personal freedoms, so we must force everybody into a singular society?
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And English should be our national language.
And I'm sure, you scream "state rights" just as loudly elsewhere, and against federal overreach elsewhere. What is wrong with each state deciding it at state level, and local governance deciding it at their level?
NO. English is not the mandated language of our country. Many of our own citizens that are born here barely speak it well, we do not insist that they speak perfect English, in some parts of the south one practically needs a translator. I have met foreigners that have better command of English, crisper enunciation and grammar. Even here on cd, many people seem to not even use spell check or proper grammar.
What if they're refugees from war-torn places? That's probably not a reasonable expectation for them to know English.
Not everybody is an illegal immigrant, you know.
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