It does annoy me. A tourist or someone on vacation is one thing, but people who live here that dont annoy me. If you decide to come here.. that is great, but learn the language. Too many people dont speak English and make no effort to learn it which is absurd. You should not be given legal residency or citizenship without speaking English.
I get annoyed the most when they don't even know ANY English, I mean c'mon at least learn a bit of English if your planning on visiting, or immigrating here. :evil:
It does annoy me. A tourist or someone on vacation is one thing, but people who live here that dont annoy me. If you decide to come here.. that is great, but learn the language. Too many people dont speak English and make no effort to learn it which is absurd. You should not be given legal residency or citizenship without speaking English. Diablo112688
I'm good with spanish. spanish is like second nature to me... anything else i cant do.
I live in a part of Dallas where people from the Middle East and Mexico live with white people... so to do business with everyone here, you need to know how to understand some English, Spanish, and Urdu (My dad is from Pakistan and he's fluent in it, very interesting culture he comes from).
I live in Denver, and we have one of the biggest immigrant populations in the country. It really does irritate me when people that do not speak English get jobs which require them to talk to people. If they don't want to learn the language, they shouldn't have to, but they should NOT get jobs that require a lot of public contact.
It annoys me that it seems that so many people around here who don't speak English are given jobs in retail, where their main job is to talk to customers....
[QUOTE="tomxizor"]To be truthfully honest, it does annoy me. If you're going to live in America, learn the language, and learn it correctly. UnknownSniper65
my friend is polish and when his grandparents moved here they didnt speak a word of english but that didnt stop them from learning english..... He has family that can teach them though. I'm talking about the immigrants who know absolutely no one from the US, and have no one to teach them.
Guess what morons, this country is based upon immigrants DEAL WITH IT!
I'm French/Mexican and my first language was not English....so blah!
Lds_Ricky
technically your right we don't have an Official Language...but English is what the majority of americans speak so if people plan on living in this country they should learn it!.....not knowing english didn't stop you or immigrants of the past from learning English
It does annoy me. A tourist or someone on vacation is one thing, but people who live here that dont annoy me. If you decide to come here.. that is great, but learn the language. Too many people dont speak English and make no effort to learn it which is absurd. You should not be given legal residency or citizenship without speaking English. Diablo112688
By the same token, what if people all over the world adopted this policy .. there goes my plans on living on Japan some day.
that is one of the most annoying and hated things to me. i cant stand it when that happens, pisses me off so bad. happens like every day, cant stand it. so much i want to say that i cant say in here.
[QUOTE="Diablo112688"]It does annoy me. A tourist or someone on vacation is one thing, but people who live here that dont annoy me. If you decide to come here.. that is great, but learn the language. Too many people dont speak English and make no effort to learn it which is absurd. You should not be given legal residency or citizenship without speaking English. LiquidZ08
By the same token, what if people all over the world adopted this policy .. there goes my plans on living on Japan some day.
People all over the world would have every right to adopt this policy. If you want to live in Japan that badly, learn at least the basics of the language.
I can't even begin to imagine living in a country where I don't know at least some of the language =/ Even going on holiday for a week, it frustrates me if I can't attempt to make some form of communication with the people who live there.
It annoys me when people from another country come here and learn english but REALLY badly and half the time you can't understand them and keep going "what? umm...yeah yeah...what was that?.....sorry what did you say?....right..." It's mainly asians when I think about it(no offence meant).
[QUOTE="SolidSnake35"]It annoys me more when people can speak English but chat in their language when they want a private conversation.UnknownSniper65
Yeah...I have noticed that Indians that are always in the malls where i live tend to do that a lot =/ So people who are both more fluent in a non-English language should have to speak English with one another... because it annoys you? If they can better express themselves in their own language when talking to another person who is also fluent, doesn't it make more sense for them to speak that language? How intolerant...
People all over the world would have every right to adopt this policy. If you want to live in Japan that badly, learn at least the basics of the language.
I can't even begin to imagine living in a country where I don't know at least some of the language =/ Even going on holiday for a week, it frustrates me if I can't attempt to make some form of communication with the people who live there.
Snomel
You sir would divide the world and be the cause of WW2.5.
It does bother me that I can't understand a language....but since English wasn't the first tongue spoken here...or the first for that matter, I don't really care. If it bothers you that tourists don't speak the language correctly, you shouldn't find out about what the American people know of it. "I speak American."
I get annoyed the most when they don't even know ANY English, I mean c'mon at least learn a bit of English if your planning on visiting, or immigrating here. :evil:-911-
That's right. Did you know the Netherlands is so dumb, we speak english to you, rather you talking dutch to use. And then think of all the money the State (kingdom) gives to all the none workers. ..wich most of 'hem are moslims. no offence;)
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People all over the world would have every right to adopt this policy. If you want to live in Japan that badly, learn at least the basics of the language.
I can't even begin to imagine living in a country where I don't know at least some of the language =/ Even going on holiday for a week, it frustrates me if I can't attempt to make some form of communication with the people who live there.
LiquidZ08
You sir would divide the world and be the cause of WW2.5.
Firstly, I'm female. Secondly, this is a huge over-reaction. Is it really so wrong to expect someone to learn the language of the country they live in!? Sure, if someone is a refugee, and has a good reason to need to leave their home country, they should be welcomed anywhere. But if someone just thinks, "hey, it'd be really cool to live in Japan" (or any other country, for that matter), it's only fair that they learn the basic language and customs of the place they wish to live.
Why would it annoy me? How would you feel if you had to move to Japan for some reason and everyone treated you like crap just because you couldn't speak fluent Japanese?
[QUOTE="Diablo112688"]It does annoy me. A tourist or someone on vacation is one thing, but people who live here that dont annoy me. If you decide to come here.. that is great, but learn the language. Too many people dont speak English and make no effort to learn it which is absurd. You should not be given legal residency or citizenship without speaking English. JuneBugg132
I'm good with spanish. spanish is like second nature to me... anything else i cant do. I can speak English , spanish and Im currently learning japanese :D
People all over the world would have every right to adopt this policy. If you want to live in Japan that badly, learn at least the basics of the language.
I can't even begin to imagine living in a country where I don't know at least some of the language =/ Even going on holiday for a week, it frustrates me if I can't attempt to make some form of communication with the people who live there.
Snomel
You sir would divide the world and be the cause of WW2.5.
Firstly, I'm female. Secondly, this is a huge over-reaction. Is it really so wrong to expect someone to learn the language of the country they live in!? Sure, if someone is a refugee, and has a good reason to need to leave their home country, they should be welcomed anywhere. But if someone just thinks, "hey, it'd be really cool to live in Japan" (or any other country, for that matter), it's only fair that they learn the basic language and customs of the place they wish to live.
Hmmm .. I can agree to that, but you must understand something, my last post wasn't serious. It is rather hard to get jokes to come across correctly on the interwebs sometimes.
Hmmm .. I can agree to that, but you must understand something, my last post wasn't serious. It is rather hard to get jokes to come across correctly on the interwebs sometimes.LiquidZ08
Sorry.... I only got about 4 hours sleep last night, so I'm feeling a bit grumpy, and jumping on the chance to start yelling at people. Usually, I would have thought, "hmm, this probably isn't entirely serious..." before replying.
In fact, I think I'm gonna get some sleep now... so tired...
[QUOTE="LiquidZ08"]Hmmm .. I can agree to that, but you must understand something, my last post wasn't serious. It is rather hard to get jokes to come across correctly on the interwebs sometimes.Snomel
Sorry.... I only got about 4 hours sleep last night, so I'm feeling a bit grumpy, and jumping on the chance to start yelling at people. Usually, I would have thought, "hmm, this probably isn't entirely serious..." before replying.
In fact, I think I'm gonna get some sleep now... so tired...
It doesn't annoy me at all really that people come to the US and cannot speak of a lick of it actually. But I do like to see people actually try to learn english. This does not mean laws should be in effect for anyone moving here. Of course for anyone moving here, they should know the important customs before coming (or else people might get offended). Thats my honest oppinion on that one. You should sleep .. sleepy head :P
If I said that it annoyed me then I would be a hypocrite. I've been living in sweden for almost 5 years but still speak english to my friends. They all understand me so I haven't bothered speaking swedish, though I do speak swedish in school.
sometimes. like if a tourist were to come to my country and ask me a question about something, but they don't speak english or even good english, it would annoy me.
It annoys me a bit... but I don't care, all of the people that lives in here speaks in spanish so... I always speak in spanish... but it still annoys me that they don't make goddamn effort to learn english! :evil:
Well, seeing that the USA has no official language, hating people because they speak a different language is just plain nativism. Most people have ancestors that came here during the huge wave of immigration in the early 1900's. Most of them didn't speak english. Are you saying they should have not been allowed into The Land of Opportunity?
I don't mind if they can't speak the language but only if they speak in another language to have a private conversation. I mean, for all I know they could be laughing at me.
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