How can we help people that speak Spanish learn English, and people that speak English, learn Spanish?

Migra

We should not have to learn to speak Spanish. Those who do not speak English need to learn it or get the h*ll out.

donie_b49

Why do Americans need to learn to speak Spanish
Are we going to illegally jump the border and go after our olds jobs down there?

Leogirl0804

Why should I learn Spanish? I have no desire to visit Mexico or Spain. Why not throw in French, German, or Russian for that matter. What about Arab while we are at it? Why just Spanish. That is very narrow thinking don't you agree?

king Ebanks of USA

why the hell, i need to learn Spanish I'm not the one moving to the majority speaking English country and refuse to learn the Language!!!

msmissy

I know all the Spanish I need to know:
Enchilada
Taco
Burrito
Quesadilla
Taco Bell

darkness_returns

In my opinion, being in an English speaking country, Why the hell should I learn spanish? It really annoys me that I have to "press 1 for english" or listen to walmart's loudspeaker commercials in spanish. If I go to Spain, Mexico, France or wherever I don't expect them to learn English just to accommodate my laziness, most would tell you to go f*** yourself anyways. But of course, for political correctness we're not allowed to do that here. Let's not let USA become another Mexico, we speak English, learn it or get the F*** out!!

E-vangelist

Just don't use my tax dollars is all I ask.

blnbyrose

Lets waste more tax dollars on schooling illegal alien children. Over 2 million of them are in school in California. I must work overtime to pay my taxes to suppoprt them.

alanpks4

This is the United States, we speak English.

No need to learn Spanish or any others.
If you don't speak English, learn, or too bad for you.

No other country in the world caters to people like we do. If you dint' know the language too bad.

dfgkasdjflma

Not much we can do if they are not WILLING to learn!

Common Sense

We, as a nation, have no interest in doing this..

whiz

If I were to move to a Latin American country, I would learn Spanish. Otherwise, I don't NEED to learn Spanish, or any other language.
We have immigrants from dozens of countries into the U.S. THEY assimilate into our culture, not vice versa.

Columbian

Now it is good to learn to speak other languages; however, I interpret this question is trying to imply that the United States should force its people to learn Spanish to accomodate the immigrant population.

The United States should not have to sacrifice its culture and heritage to accomodate foreigners.

It is the responsibility of an immigrant to legally immigrate into the country that they desire and practice the language and customs of that country. They should not give up their old traditions either, because that is a part of their identity, yet they need to incorporate themselves in the country that they willingly left their native land to reside.

loretta

i have no interest to learn another language, i live in America, they come here they can learn English. they knew what they was getting into when they came here. they don't need to come here trying to change are ways and laws.

Gary J

For immigrants here in the U. S. A., they should have to learn english, but for those of us born here in the U. S. A., why should we have to learn spanish. Now lets say that I chose to move to Mexico, yes I feel I should have to learn spanosh.

awftx

Curious, You talking about "americans" that live in this country... Why in the hell would we want to learn to speak spanish..... As for all the illegals, they SHOULDN'T even be here... something about the word illegal, says it all. Those that are here legally, they should HAVE to learn english..... I went into Wal-Mart awhile back and happened to ask a Wal-Mart employee where I could locate a certain item and they couldn't speak english, they had to go and get someone else to answer my question.... Then I asked the first employee " in spanish", how long had she been here in the US and she told me....10 years... Sorry... That's total BS.... But, hey, I can hear now what some of you are saying....... So, when can I come by and steal a few things from your house.... Oh, that's illegal ??? when does it apply...only when you think it should .... or better yet.... let's move down to Mexico, and by god... where ever we move, those people better learn how to speak english.....

Mel

It depends on their age, their available time and interests. In general (as a Spanish speaker mother of bilingual children) I think the best way are to expose them to the language they wan to learn, by direct conversations, movies (close captioning/subtitles helps a lot), readings (newspaper, story telling, etc depending on the case) and also taking courses.
As an adult, what has worked best for me is taking grammar and pronunciation courses, and for my children, playing with English speaker children (I talk to them in Spanish all the time at home, but when I see they need a translation, I explain it to them).
I'm doing this because I have found that there are more career opportunities, and also it's an advantage if you like to travel abroad. I wish we could learn another language, too, like French or German.

illegals_r_whiners

I don't WANT to learn spanish!!! I live in AMERICA, an WE speak ENGLISH here!!

The first step is to have a desire to learn. From my experience seeing the illegal aliens, they are sadly lacking this desire! They just DEMAND that we learn Spanish.

Personally I have no great desire to learn Spanish, out of protest to the attitude of these individuals. They have no right to demand anything and since they are here they MUST learn English.

ICE AGENT

Give it up man. It's not gonna happen.

Pearl Jam

Deport anyone who refuses to learn it and speak it, and/or make their life extremely difficult. We should make it our official "official" language.

Juan

With bilingual courses.

Ex.

http://www.mansionspanish.com (Spanish for English)
http://www.mansioningles.com (English for Spanish)
.

san_ann68

if people are going to live in America they need to learn English,it isn't helping them by making it easier for them by making things in their language and giving them no reason to learn English,as for English speaking Spanish,i dont feel the need unless i am going to a Spanish speaking country

Wiz

It is not "our" (as a nation) function to help people learn other languages, except as a part of a job, such as government translators working in the State Department for instance. If people want to learn any other language, let them take the perogative and learn it. Learning English in the US is easy, millions of legal immigrants did just that, all you have to do is apply yourself. Bilingual education is one of the biggest failures of government schools (and they have had so many). All it does is prolong the time it takes to learn the host language and assimilate into the culture.

Colonel Angus

As long as I live in the USA, I shouldn't and will not speak any other language than English

Krasus

Only the Spanish learn English part.

Peach

Have the Spanish speakers learn English and that's really all we need in the US, seeing that we shouldn't have to change our ways to make others feel more comfortable. However it would be nice to learn the language in the case that we ever had to travel to Spain or Mexico.

Mendi8a

all we can do is make the schooling readily available for them, communication can bring understanding. The individual has to make the decision and the effort to take the first step. Im willing to help out any person that would like to learn English or Spanish, but it is very important to learn the verbal and written. I suggest that you take a class AND communicate with people that are originally from that country, really practice with people, dont be shy!

eddie

eventually,people who speak two or more languages will be best that the people who speak only one language.for instance,i can speak Spanish and English and want learn french.for me people who feel happy only because speak one language; they are ignorants.I think that English is a good language, I think that all people must know at least two language because if they travel to other countries they will be confident because they could speak the same language.

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