Why do we have to learn Spanish when we are in America?
I Just wanted to know. I mean, I know in the U.S learning Spanish isn't mandatory, but it might as well be. America has to always print everything thats in English, in Spanish also. I Just want to know why we virtually have to comply to Hispanic needs. They want us to learn to speak Spanish, but do they realize that they are in America? Why shouldn't they be the ones to learn our language because they are in your country. A lot of jobs here in California want you to be bi-lingual just to be hired. If the U.S is going to virtually force us to learn other languages to keep up with the other countries (gosh, how to say this; other countries' schools make it mandatory that students
have to learn more than one language, and the U.S doesn't, so they are trying to "make us smarter" by forcing another language upon us.)
Why should we adhere to Hispanic needs? If they're going to make us learn more languages, we need to lean French, Spanish and other languages too. Not just Spanish. I feel this way because I feel that some immigrants (some illegal) feel that we Americans need to learn to speak Spanish. So, my question is, why should be adhere and comply to what they want, when they should be the ones learning the English language since they're not in their home country? I have made it a goal of mine to learn Spanish just so I have a better chance of getting a job. I mean, its just, I feel almost forced to learn Spanish or else I am not likely to get a job. I plan on going to Mexico to learn Spanish fluently, but I wouldn't go over there in a mindset that the Hispanic in Mexico need to learn English! Thats disrespectful to go to another countries and force your wants upon its people.
So, tell me your thoughts on this....
And no, NOT ALL Hispanics feel this way, and I didn't say that all of
them did. If you read the question carefully, it says SOME.
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Languages offered in schools vary greatly… in NYC were I teach Japanese, Arabic, Russia, Mandarin, German, French, Hebrew etc are all offered as well as Spanish.
If you think about it when we invaded America we forced Native Americans to speak english!
You also need to know that learning a different language will help you with many skills including math! Your brain doesn’t just store language in one part of the brain… english maybe stored in one area spanish another and so on!
Also we need to start realizing that we live in a GLOBAL COMMUNITY!!! not just good Ole US of A
Well i love spanish and it was a great 4 year experience for me in school, you not only get to speak to people who came here who are hispanics, you can go outside of this country and benefit if you visit a spanish speaking country.
We should not have to learn Spanish if we live in the US but it can be helpful.
Try living in South Florida if you do not understand or speak Spanish.
You’d never belive that you are in the US
That’s the same question I asked my French tutor : ) when I was in high school. The answer was second languages bolster your IQ. She was right.
Actually I think Spanish will be a growing language throughout the world.. far more so than French or German etc.. so why not? Another language is always to your advantage.
Nobody is making us learn anything, speaking another language is a choice and I have never met an immigrant legal or illegal that expected me to learn their language. And nobody forces anyone to print things in other languages that is also a choice. Many printed publications and instructions are in Spanish, French, English and Chinese. Pointing out only Spanish reveals an underlying hostility for Spanish speaking legal citizens which amount to over 45 million in the US alone.
That is the Great American Melting Pot for you. I know exactly how you feel! But don’t go to Mexico to learn the language, go to the library or contact the local adult education facility. You’ll get the same results!
I totally agree. Give it 5 years and nothing will be written in English anymore. You won’t be a business or go into a business and actually talk to anyone who speaks English. It is very disrepectful to come into our country and expect us to ‘cater’ to them. but they don’t respect US or it’s citizens anyway. but they sure expect our handouts without even a TY..Other countries come here and speak English and don’t expect us to learn Chinese or French but they r special I guess. The public schools here Have to take Spanish now to graduate. with all the things our kids NEED to learn to survive (computers, math, technology, etc) and spanish seems to be more important than all of those things. I took spanish in school. I couldn’t get it. i never would have graduated. How do you say Big mac in spanish.?
Yeah like the previous poster said no one is forcing you. But many people prefer to speak their language. Both my parents know how to speak english but they prefer to speak spanish(since they are worried bout their accent).
Besides isn’t it nice to say you speak other languages?
Because there are a lot of spanish speaking people in america. And why should they have to learn english? It is the hardest language to learn, and english speaking people make the native indians learn english because they were to lazy to learn what the natives spoke, it the same thing.
If you dont want to learn spanish then dont but dont make someone else learn english because you dont want to.
And dont start with the whole illegal alien thing because your family didnt start here and they didnt take the test so your here illegally too
My home boy works at McDonalds. They hire illegals like you wouldn’t believe. The way they do it, is to send the illegals down to this lawyer who fills out some kind of form for them. He on purpose does not fill the form out all the way before he submits it to the government. This alone buys the illegal a lot of time before the form gets kicked back. When they get the form back, they instantly have more time before the form has to be resubmitted. When they do finally resubmitt the form, the illegal has even more time to be an illegal. If something goes wrong, they just pull another name out of the sky and slap it on that illegal. Pedro could have been Carlos yesterday. Get it??? As far as us Americans learning Spanish….. Piss on them!!! let THEM learn English the same as all other imagrents proudly did.
i agree with you completely, learning another language should be on a voluntary basis—people living in this country should learn english—there are 23 states who have made english the offical language and i hope there are more to come—we should have some things that identify us as a nation and english is one of them
For business, economic reasons.
Sorry, I am born in The USA!
I speak the BIG A!
Come to my country, speak my language or go home!
Because California used to be part of Mexico and californians used to speak spanish and because we’re little by little taking back what you stole, emmmm, bought from us.
Oh, and spanish is beautiful.
Well, America doesn’t have a set language. We are the country of immigrants. With the hispanic population growing so fast it doesn’t hurt us to learn a little Spanish. What is the big deal if we have papers in English and Spanish? If it helps them understand what they are reading, then what is the big problem? A lot of hispanic people want and are trying to learn English, but it takes time. Also, a lot of them do speak English but they may be too embarrassed to speak to somebody they don’t know because they are afraid they will say something wrong.
The thing that bothers me most is when an English speaking person says/asks something to a Spanish speaking person and they talk SO fast with slang.. OF COURSE they aren’t going to understand!!
Relax! nobody wants you or is forcing you to speak Spanish or "adhere to Hispanic needs"…..whatever that means?
Funny that I never hear people complain about the groups in New York’s little Italy, or L.A.’s China Town! why? because Hispanics are the limelight and are being attacked because of this. You should really go and talk to an advertising company. They’ll tell you how much more money it brings them in, and the businesses that decide to advertise in English and Spanish. I bet they’re not complaining and whining like you. That’s just more money generated and jobs created……duh!
well noone ask you to learn spanish and u dont have to buy anything that is print in spanish, and nobody is forcing u to learn o speak spanish, and im workin in a office and i dont need to speak spanish or i have to learn spanish so i dont kno why u poor lil gal needs to learn that to get a good job, i can teach u spanish if u want
Because if we don’t it’ll be harder to talk to our landscapers!
We don’t have to learn spanish, if people would quit catering to spanish speakers it wouldn’t be an issue. I have no intentions of learning it. This country was founded on English and if people refuse to learn English they need to leave.
Some of you are suggesting that because I know Spanish I’m illegal. I was born and raised in the USA.
It’s an option and you don’t have to learn it if you don’t want to. It’s also an option to learn French, Italian, and so on. So why is learning Spanish an issue?
I travel a lot and the US is the only county in the world that I have found people that considers learning another language a negative.
I learned to speak 4 different languages and still learning more and I consider it to be a blessing.
America does not have an official language.
You dont have to learn spanish if the label also has english
You can read your english and ill read my spanish
Oh and some have french too
Sounds like America is going the same way as the U.K.
British nationals are loosing their culture to foreign immigrants
who come to the U.K,and then want everything changed to embrace
their own culture, and the powers that be, give in every time.
(When in Rome springs to mind), Appeasement seems to be the in word,
U.K charity is seen as weakness by some. I,like hundreds of thousands
of British nationals who leave the U.K each year,have found another home,and live by their law and culture.Lets hope America stays true
to it’s own people, unlike the U.K. Next year there will be another 400,000 dissatisfied British nationals leaving the U.K, will the Government ever wonder WHY?
why not?? spanish is cool lol!!
you people are missing the point
its not about whether learning spanish is ‘nice’
its whether it should even be done.
I think its very rude and disrespectful for people to enter a nation as an immigrant, and than expect to ask that nation to play by their rules.
Its crazy – That nutty attitude is the reason the USA will fall
I am a US-born Hispanic from Texas, English is my first language and I know some Spanish too. I started working at an insurance company 2 years ago and many of those who come don’t speak English at all. It doesn’t bother me they don’t speak the language we workers and supervisor do, many of us service providers have learned some Spanish to use it at workplace. But the problem is most of these people don’t make an effort to learn English …….that’s what’s bothering.