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You were just provided information that most spanish speaking citizens are here legally.
You commented that they were illegal.
You were provided more information that refuted your claim.
You said that these legal people are illegally here.
Do I have this right?
Other languages are great so long as we have a common language. What I'm not getting is the push for one certain second language. What about those that speak Korean and English? The list goes on. We need one common language and it makes sense that it's English.
We do have a common language. Nobody is pushing for a second one, let alone "one certain second" one.
America is a bilingual society now - English and Spanish
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Is this a growing trend?
Shouldn't children be learning English?
Kids should be learning AT LEAST 2 languages - English and Spanish. Hispanics are a central part of our culture. As a result, everyone should at least know these two languages.
I don't speak spanish and feel I'm behind. That's why I too intend to learn spanish. Took it in HS but that was a long time ago. Asian languages are also important.
Why not english? It is the language spoken here even though, there are those who refuse to learn it. Europeans who came here looking for a better life learned North American english. It helped them attain the better life they were looking for that they could not find in the countries they came from. So I ask you why not english? What specifically do you have against learning the language that is spoken in the U. S. by U.S. citizens whose ancestors that came here learned when their first language was not english (and not spanish)?
Then why did/do I have friends who are second generation US from European decent with parents who never spoke English?
It would be beneficial for those who claim that the US is an English-speaking country to learn proper English grammar, spelling and sentence structure before complaining about the language skills of others.
Also, please point out anywhere in the documents stated that English is the official language of our country.
I did not mean to imply that any of those documents stated that. I know they did not. I know that we have no 'official' language.
But when people say we are a bi-lingual country, they are wrong.
If that was the case, the English would have had to press 1 for English in order to comprehend our Declaration of Independence!
Europeans who came here looking for a better life learned North American english.
Actually... not so much.
Their children? Sure.
But the immigrant pattern has always been to first settle into ethnic neighborhoods where the mother tongue was still spoken. That's why we have Chinatowns, Greek Towns and Little Italy's in so many American cities.
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America is a bilingual society now - English and Spanish
