Obama "Make sure your kids speak spanish"

Im all for being bilingual but that would benefit the illegal immigrants that dont want to speak english. My grandma immigrated here from asia and she was forced to learn english, now obama wants to help illegal immigrants by wanting everyone to speak spanish, this seems to be unfair, just because they are growing rapidly (due to the illegals) doesnt mean there language is more spoken.

Im with my grandfather on this one, This is America, we speak english in this part of the country, you want spanish, go back to South America.

lol thats ruff dude. Im Canadian n all, we have like no problems speakin french as a second language...Why is it that the us complains so much..

Its not like you HAVE TO learn it...

lol thats ruff dude. Im Canadian n all, we have like no problems speakin french as a second language...Why is it that the us complains so much..

Its not like you HAVE TO learn it...

navigata

lol thats ruff dude. Im Canadian n all, we have like no problems speakin french as a second language...Why is it that the us complains so much..

Its not like you HAVE TO learn it...

navigata

Yeah man, I agree, and I think we should make English our official language, people don't seem to grasp the concept that that doesn't mean we look down on those who don't speak it, we just force them to learn it.

Basically, if it became our official language, the only change would be there wouldn't be Spanish schools, and government institutions probably wouldn't issue licenses and such to those who can't speak English, which if you ask me makes sense.

lol thats ruff dude. Im Canadian n all, we have like no problems speakin french as a second language...Why is it that the us complains so much..

Its not like you HAVE TO learn it...

navigata

in canada it's basically the scond language of the nation, with amerca it's new imigrants bringing it in so they should learn english, a country shouldn't have to change itself to cater for imigrants

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lol thats ruff dude. Im Canadian n all, we have like no problems speakin french as a second language...Why is it that the us complains so much..

Its not like you HAVE TO learn it...

Godly_Cure

Also people who know Spanish get a lot of breaks for college.

I speak a little Spanish. but just because of school forcing us to do a 2nd language, though atleast it isn't so I can speak to illegals. I agree with you TC, that's messed up.Brainkiller05

Saying it isn't for illegals is pretty much false.

But it just burns me to see that illegals or other hispanics dont need to learn english here. My moms family was forced to learn english to live here, it just seems sooo unfair.CWEBB04z

So why don't they make us speak canadian

j/k

The TC is an idiot. Mexicans make up the largest nationality of LEGAL immigrants that come into this country through the proper channels. And Latinos as a whole make up the second largest group of legal immigrants, behind Asians. Its not just because of illegal immigrants. Clear-up your ignorance:ProudLarry

Just learn the god damn language and stop complaining :roll: Bilingually is a good and useful thing.

How about you kiss my ass Obama? Kiss it real good. ;)

Government shouldn't tell us what to do. Good thing I'm not in jail...I mean school....:D

The TC is an idiot. Mexicans make up the largest nationality of LEGAL immigrants that come into this country through the proper channels. And Latinos as a whole make up the second largest group of legal immigrants, behind Asians. Its not just because of illegal immigrants. Clear-up your ignorance: http://www.dhs.gov/ximgtn/statistics/ProudLarry

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Just learn the god damn language and stop complaining :roll: Bilingually is a good and useful thing.

falconclan

Learning Japanese or Chinese is only useful if you're working in the economy/business sector. The large portion of Spanish speaking immigrants and the location of Mexico makes Spanish a very useful language to know.

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Just learn the god damn language and stop complaining :roll: Bilingually is a good and useful thing.

falconclan

Spanish is the second most widely spoken language only behind Chinese. You mention Japanese as being useful, even though only Japan is the only country that uses it as an official/de facto language. Yet Spanish is the official language in more than 20 countries. Please elaborate on how that makes it worthless.ProudLarry

[QUOTE="ProudLarry"]The TC is an idiot. Mexicans make up the largest nationality of LEGAL immigrants that come into this country through the proper channels. And Latinos as a whole make up the second largest group of legal immigrants, behind Asians. Its not just because of illegal immigrants. Clear-up your ignorance: SIapshot

[QUOTE="ProudLarry"]Spanish is the second most widely spoken language only behind Chinese. You mention Japanese as being useful, even though only Japan is the only country that uses it as an official/de facto language. Yet Spanish is the official language in more than 20 countries. Please elaborate on how that makes it worthless.Harshvardhan666

[QUOTE="Harshvardhan666"][QUOTE="ProudLarry"]Spanish is the second most widely spoken language only behind Chinese. You mention Japanese as being useful, even though only Japan is the only country that uses it as an official/de facto language. Yet Spanish is the official language in more than 20 countries. Please elaborate on how that makes it worthless.Mr_sprinkles

When my family came here, they applied for a citizenship, had a criminal background check, and then LEARNED ENGLISH.CradleXX

[QUOTE="falconclan"][QUOTE="jointed"]

Just learn the god damn language and stop complaining :roll: Bilingually is a good and useful thing.

ProudLarry

Im just basing it off of what our local school district is doing it for, not nationally.

Actually I am not from America so I wouldn't know so well.But learning a language should be a choice,not an enforcement.Harshvardhan666

[QUOTE="ProudLarry"]Spanish is the second most widely spoken language only behind Chinese. You mention Japanese as being useful, even though only Japan is the only country that uses it as an official/de facto language. Yet Spanish is the official language in more than 20 countries. Please elaborate on how that makes it worthless.Harshvardhan666

[QUOTE="Harshvardhan666"][QUOTE="ProudLarry"]Spanish is the second most widely spoken language only behind Chinese. You mention Japanese as being useful, even though only Japan is the only country that uses it as an official/de facto language. Yet Spanish is the official language in more than 20 countries. Please elaborate on how that makes it worthless.ProudLarry

[QUOTE="Harshvardhan666"][QUOTE="ProudLarry"]Spanish is the second most widely spoken language only behind Chinese. You mention Japanese as being useful, even though only Japan is the only country that uses it as an official/de facto language. Yet Spanish is the official language in more than 20 countries. Please elaborate on how that makes it worthless.ProudLarry

why not just learn english, people in China are learning English in schools, Almost everyone, people in europe have English as a second language, most the time, Everyone in America and most in Canada know English. Within 10 years English will be the most highly spoken language because everyone is learning it.

[QUOTE="CradleXX"]When my family came here, they applied for a citizenship, had a criminal background check, and then LEARNED ENGLISH.Mr_sprinkles

[QUOTE="ProudLarry"][QUOTE="Harshvardhan666"][QUOTE="ProudLarry"]Spanish is the second most widely spoken language only behind Chinese. You mention Japanese as being useful, even though only Japan is the only country that uses it as an official/de facto language. Yet Spanish is the official language in more than 20 countries. Please elaborate on how that makes it worthless.Harshvardhan666

[QUOTE="Harshvardhan666"] Actually I am not from America so I wouldn't know so well.But learning a language should be a choice,not an enforcement.Mr_sprinkles

He also said that immigrants coming here should learn English, are you saying they shouldn't be forced?supercubedude64

[QUOTE="Mr_sprinkles"][QUOTE="CradleXX"]When my family came here, they applied for a citizenship, had a criminal background check, and then LEARNED ENGLISH.CradleXX

The TC is an idiot. Mexicans make up the largest nationality of LEGAL immigrants that come into this country through the proper channels. And Latinos as a whole make up the second largest group of legal immigrants, behind Asians. Its not just because of illegal immigrants. Clear-up your ignorance: http://www.dhs.gov/ximgtn/statistics/ProudLarry

And a large chunk still refuse to learn English.

[QUOTE="Harshvardhan666"][QUOTE="ProudLarry"][QUOTE="Harshvardhan666"][QUOTE="ProudLarry"]Spanish is the second most widely spoken language only behind Chinese. You mention Japanese as being useful, even though only Japan is the only country that uses it as an official/de facto language. Yet Spanish is the official language in more than 20 countries. Please elaborate on how that makes it worthless.ProudLarry

why not just learn english, people in China are learning English in schools, Almost everyone, people in europe have English as a second language, most the time, Everyone in America and most in Canada know English. Within 10 years English will be the most highly spoken language because everyone is learning it.

ferrari2001

Ah, so you want every other country to learn your language as a second language, but you complain about learning a second language yourself?

[QUOTE="CradleXX"][QUOTE="Mr_sprinkles"][QUOTE="CradleXX"]When my family came here, they applied for a citizenship, had a criminal background check, and then LEARNED ENGLISH.Mr_sprinkles

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why not just learn english, people in China are learning English in schools, Almost everyone, people in europe have English as a second language, most the time, Everyone in America and most in Canada know English. Within 10 years English will be the most highly spoken language because everyone is learning it.

JML897

Ah, so you want every other country to learn your language as a second language, but you complain about learning a second language yourself?

OK.I thought you were just saying that Spanish the second most spoken language in the world. It is not worthless.But if you want to learn a language,then you should be able to choose which one.Harshvardhan666