35 Responses to “Why should we be forced to learn Spanish?”
b on 4 Oct 2008 at 10:45 pm #
that is crazy. at least you will know what they are saying about you. it does seriously help your resume anymore.
brite tiger on 7 Oct 2008 at 7:38 pm #
Because the good ol’ USA is fast becoming Northern Mexico thanks to our do nothing congress.
WHITE GIRL on 9 Oct 2008 at 6:03 pm #
Great post!! I agree. I, for one, refuse to learn Spanish. I’m not here to cater to them because they are too lazy or too ignorant to learn English. Speak English or go back to Mexico!
SuperDDD on 10 Oct 2008 at 3:39 pm #
You should learn Spanish. I did. You only say that because it’s your point of view. Since I’m bilingual, I’m a more valuable employee, and it’s great.
InHouston on 12 Oct 2008 at 8:00 pm #
If you live anywhere in the Southwest, Spanish was the language before English.
The majority of the people in the US would prefer not to learn more than just English but in other parts of the world people speaks many languages.
Accept the fact that people in this country speak Spanish and other languages! Don’t learn Spanish if you want to get left behind.
Oh, by the way, most immigrants who have been here any significant amount of time do learn English, and most of their children speak English, too.
Rich S on 13 Oct 2008 at 1:11 am #
ENGLISH HAS BEEN THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE FOR SOME TIME NOW. I THINK YOU ARE TOTALLY CORRECT. IF YOU WANT TO EMIGRATE TO ANOTHER NATION, IT WOULD BENEFIT YOU TO LEARN THE LANGUAGE. DON’T EXPECT THEM TO LEARN YOURS JUST BECAUSE YOU WALKED THRU THE DOOR OR SWAM ACROSS THE BORDER.
brandy538 on 13 Oct 2008 at 11:04 am #
every other country’s public school’s kids have to learn english,did u know that?
well back to the point spanish is easy language to learn while english is a really hard language to grasp for others who don’t have it as a first language
Sabrosura on 15 Oct 2008 at 10:40 am #
If you dont want to you dont have to after all the official language of this country is English, but see the more knowledge you have more power to you. I know 5 languages, Enlgish,Farsi,French,Polish,and Spanish. I never plan on living in Iran,or France, but I speak Polish with my husband. Anyways the point I am trying to make the more languages you know more power for you.
vegaswoman on 17 Oct 2008 at 9:04 am #
I don’t agree with that policy but the company has the right to give preference to employees who can speak another language if they believe it will benefit the company. The only option employees have is to seek employment elsewhere if they don’t like the policy.
Chester's Liver on 18 Oct 2008 at 9:44 pm #
Amen sister. This is more liberal B.S. You shouldn’t have to learn spanish. In fact, we shouldn’t print voter registration info. in spanish, we shouldn’t teach in spanish, and we sure as heck should not have allowed 20 million spanish speaking mexicans to cross the border!
I mow my own grass.
Camilo on 20 Oct 2008 at 9:52 pm #
Stay ignorant, refuse to learn Spanish.
Others will make the effort and they will get ahead of you.
Krasus on 22 Oct 2008 at 10:41 am #
Because America would rather bend it’s back to the illegals and try not to offend anybody rather than having some balls and enforcing our laws, including having to learn English.
malice on 24 Oct 2008 at 1:10 am #
Yes! You have a great point! I totally agree! I think that maybe if people that speak Spanish are coming here, then they should learn English so that they can teach English-speaking people Spanish for those that want to learn Spanish. Eh…maybe? What do you think?
Rikkar Z on 25 Oct 2008 at 1:51 pm #
I agree with you about language.
I beleive that if you immigrate to any country, you should learn to speak the language of the country. That should be one of the first things a person should do.
I believe I have said that my father immigrated legally from Romania. He came here speaking English, as well as Romanian and Rromanes. I think he spoke a few more as well. I know that he never expected people in America to understand either Romanian or Rromanes.
I lived in San Pablo, California. In that area, at that time (late 90’s to 2000) many of the employers such as McDonalds would not hire you if you were not bilingual in Spanish and English.
I understand why they do it, especially in areas like San Pablo, but I think it should not need to be done.
I also agree with the people who say that such as voter’s information should not be in Spanish or any other language than English.
iLLegal Mexican on 26 Oct 2008 at 9:12 pm #
After all, they came here; we didn’t go there.
The bosses, at my father’s company, recently informed the management that if they want to advance within the company, they would be required to learn Spanish. One man stood up and asked, “Why can’t they learn English?”
Why should US citizens be forced to learn Spanish? Last time I checked, we didn’t go to Mexico to steal jobs and I’m sure if we did, they wouldn’t be learning English to accommodate us.
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FIXED by an illegal. Now, go learn proper English.
haleycutie12 on 28 Oct 2008 at 5:05 am #
Hey, dont be like that. So what if we came here? How do you think they do things like international trade? Also, if you go about it the legal way, you HAVE to learn some english. And don’t go accusin about stealin jobs or none of that cuz a lot of us have to work twice as hard and dot get paid well because people think we aren’t good enough. So before you go runnin your mouth, know what your talkin bout. And dont call us “them” because im a mexican too, and i cant speak english perfectly fine and you dont see people walking up to me saying how come we have to learn your language. and also, we can go wherever we want. we shouldn’t be accused of stealing jobs either, because you have the same opportunity to get those jobs as we do. so maybe you should know what your talking about, before you go accusin and sayin stuff that isn’t true.
WE ARE CHICAGO ENT. on 31 Oct 2008 at 10:12 am #
WELL THEN, DONT ADVANCE IN YOUR COMPANY… OH MY BAD YOUR DADDY WONT, WHEN ARE ALL OF YOU’S GOING TO REALIZE NO MATTER HOW MANY QUESTIONS YOU ASK ON HERE, HOW MANY **** WEBSITES YOU ALL MAKE, HOW MANY DUMB COMMENTS YOU POST ON YOUR BLOGS WE ARE GOING TO KEEP COMING… AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. GET USED TO US. WE ARE HERE TO STAY. YOU STOLE OUR LAND AND WE ARE TAKING OVER SLOWLY BUT SURELY. LOL. DONT YOU **** IT WHEN IM RIGHT AND YOU AS AN INDIVIDUAL CANT DO NOTHING ABOUT US, HA HAHHAHAHAHA. AND WHEN YOU DO YOU ARE A ******. I LOVE YOUR COUNTRY. JUST FOR THIS DUMB QUESTION IM BRINGING 15 MORE OF MY UNCLES AND AUNTS HERE FROM MEXICO NEXT WEEK. AND YOUR DADDY BETTER LEARN SPANISH OR IM TAKIN HIS JOB. LOL
soul_plus_heart_equals_man on 2 Nov 2008 at 12:25 pm #
We are not forced to learn Spanish but it would be a good idea for everyone to do so. The majority of people in the world are at least bi-lingual and those that are not are mostly American’s. Would it suprise you to know that there are 3 times more people that speak English in China than there is in America? There are 6,912 known living languages in the world. You would think that we could at least learn more then one.
Look at the bright side, if you and a friend learned at least partially another language you two could talk to each other in front of others and no one would know what you were saying to each other. It can be fun to learn another language.
lola on 3 Nov 2008 at 2:58 am #
So that the Spanish speakers don’t take your job from you when they learn English and have bilungual abilities that you don’t!
knot_your_daddy on 5 Nov 2008 at 2:50 am #
ENGLISH ROOLZ !!!!!!
Lex on 6 Nov 2008 at 9:35 pm #
The real reason we have to learn Spanish is the fact that the South Americans are too lazy to learn English. They think that since they’re here illegally, that makes them guests to this country. They think that guests should get their way all the time. I am totally against Spanish becoming a second language in the U.S. English only.
LeighAnn D on 9 Nov 2008 at 9:37 am #
Who said we’re being forced to know Spanish?I live in the U.S. and I’m not being forced to learn Spanish.
Summer on 9 Nov 2008 at 9:55 am #
I hear you! I live near Canada, I’d rather speak French personally. I took French in high school and loved it. It’s a much nicer language to listen to in my opinion. So why does it have to be Spanish we Americans should be forced to speak. My Husband’s family came from Italy, but they learned to speak English when they got here. It’s not fair to the other nationalities living here, Chinese, Italians etc. we don’t cater to them so why should we cater to Mexicans.
Mom madness on 9 Nov 2008 at 9:03 pm #
Maybe because they deal with companies out of the country. Perhaps! Its pretty sad you say they steal jobs. You think they are dirt and have no education yet they steal your job. Come on. Doesnt say much for yourself, does it?????
already_enuff_spice_in_this on 10 Nov 2008 at 2:19 pm #
No one is going to be forced to learn any other language. Knowing other languages is a good idea especially when a person goes to college. I speak two languages and my husband speaks four fluently and no one can accuse him of being ignorant.
josh on 11 Nov 2008 at 9:31 am #
You shouldnt, as newcomers we have to respect + english in my personal opinion is the BEST and most EVOLVED language in the entire world, so to my fellow Hispanics and newcomers please…RESPECT and you will get FURTHER.
mikea_va on 12 Nov 2008 at 11:51 pm #
I agree with you 1000%. It is a travesty what is happening in the US with Spanish being almost everywhere. There are Spanish TV and radio stations, web sites have links to translate that page into Spanish, telephone prompts in Spanish. Schools, police departmetns and hospitals have to take money that they couild use for other resources and to teach their employees Spanish! It just doesn’t end!!!
What about all the millions of immigrants who came to the US?? They adapted to the American way of life and learned to speak English!! Why can’t these illegals do the same????????????
**Damn its cold up here** on 14 Nov 2008 at 3:25 pm #
I will say this. Growing up I was able to live in several different countries, Germany, Italy, France, and Spain. And never once while living there did I EXPECT them to learn English in order to communicate with me. Why should Americans have to learn to speak Spanish in order to communicate with Hispanics that chose to live here legally or illegally? If you cant speak the language regardless of where you come from GET THE HELL OUT!
JUSTME on 15 Nov 2008 at 9:59 am #
It is getting harder and harder in my area to get a job unless you were bilingual, Spanish & English. Pitiful.
xcelix on 15 Nov 2008 at 7:20 pm #
What a hater! Why only Mexicans? Then you cry when you’re called a ******. NOBODY is forcing you to learn Spanish. You have to be smart for that!!!!
Academy on 19 Nov 2008 at 3:12 am #
I agree!
If they think our country is so great, learn OUR language!
tom on 20 Nov 2008 at 4:13 pm #
because all god damn hispanics are trying to make america into their crappy countries “that there so proud of” (I see this puerto rican in NYC with a flag used as a cape and wearing face paint). Trying to put mexican flags near american ones, singing the national anthem in spanish. It makes me sick! My grandparents from poland had to learn to speak english, the businesses in NYC they went to weren’t teaching their employees polish even though millions of poles were there in the early 1900s. Now we see all these ILLEGAL mexicans coming here, wanting “rights”
Siervocal on 21 Nov 2008 at 1:09 pm #
Exactly, your business is going down if you don’t start using Spanish. We do learn English but are coming in so quickly that new immigrants don’t speak English. Don’t like it? Deal with it. It’s here to stay.
BOLÍVAR Libertador de América on 23 Nov 2008 at 5:34 am #
You didn’t go yo Mexico to steal jobs, you went to Mexico to steal land, remember?
goldenrae9 on 25 Nov 2008 at 8:34 am #
You may want to learn English yourself sweetheart.
“Management at my fathers company recently informed there Bosses…” should be “Management at my father’s company recently informed their bosses…”
In order to understand homophones such as ‘their, there, they’re’ you may want to hit up an ESL class with those immigrants you say aren’t learning English.
brewer82 on 27 Nov 2008 at 8:13 pm #
We’ve been invaded and our politicians just look the other way.
chicka0002002 on 27 Nov 2008 at 8:21 pm #
it broadens your view of the world. Youll be able to go travel and be able to communicate with people. It is also looks good on college and job applications. People who can learn two or more languages do better in reading, writing, and artistic persuits. It is also shown that people who can speak two or more languages are better at retaining information and are generally smarter.
mike_alegend on 28 Nov 2008 at 9:50 am #
Maybe if Hilarius Hillary is elected she could make it a law.
Fale on 1 Dec 2008 at 7:50 pm #
Oh shut up! The native Americans living in Mexica had to learn Spanish when they were invaded by the Spaniards. Grow up! How does it feel being forced down your throat a new language? Exactly. Dumb White cracka…
luv3dbb on 4 Dec 2008 at 5:32 pm #
US Citizens should not be forced to learn Spanish!! They crawled over and under OUR boarder they need to learn English and our customs.
Simply_Me on 8 Dec 2008 at 3:07 am #
I agree with you 100%!!! Not to mention I **** it when mexican people come up to me and start talking to me in spanish and I tell them I don’t know it cause I was born here. The get all offended and tell me well I should know it what’s wrong with my parents…How dumb is that!
Sorry to rant…
???????w??????: ? on 8 Dec 2008 at 6:53 pm #
bcs spanish its the socund must speaked language in the world
sortega on 11 Dec 2008 at 7:59 pm #
You shouldn’t. Although I certainly agree that knowing more than one language is beneficial and rewarding, I do not agree that people who refuse to assimilate to the language of this country should get to choose that language for you. There are, after all, hundreds of languages in the world, and learning any one of them will make you bilingual.
MinuteWoman on 12 Dec 2008 at 3:38 pm #
If the illegal has already broken immigration laws their only purpose is to send money to Mexico
Michelle on 14 Dec 2008 at 3:33 am #
Oh hunny, you can just kick back, you don’t have to learn Spanish, because I’ve known both English and Spanish since I was five. And I will be taking that great job you applied for. That’s why my Mexican parents immigrated here so I could succeed in your country. Thank-you
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that is crazy. at least you will know what they are saying about you. it does seriously help your resume anymore.
Because the good ol’ USA is fast becoming Northern Mexico thanks to our do nothing congress.
Great post!! I agree. I, for one, refuse to learn Spanish. I’m not here to cater to them because they are too lazy or too ignorant to learn English. Speak English or go back to Mexico!
You should learn Spanish. I did. You only say that because it’s your point of view. Since I’m bilingual, I’m a more valuable employee, and it’s great.
If you live anywhere in the Southwest, Spanish was the language before English.
The majority of the people in the US would prefer not to learn more than just English but in other parts of the world people speaks many languages.
Accept the fact that people in this country speak Spanish and other languages! Don’t learn Spanish if you want to get left behind.
Oh, by the way, most immigrants who have been here any significant amount of time do learn English, and most of their children speak English, too.
ENGLISH HAS BEEN THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE FOR SOME TIME NOW. I THINK YOU ARE TOTALLY CORRECT. IF YOU WANT TO EMIGRATE TO ANOTHER NATION, IT WOULD BENEFIT YOU TO LEARN THE LANGUAGE. DON’T EXPECT THEM TO LEARN YOURS JUST BECAUSE YOU WALKED THRU THE DOOR OR SWAM ACROSS THE BORDER.
every other country’s public school’s kids have to learn english,did u know that?
well back to the point spanish is easy language to learn while english is a really hard language to grasp for others who don’t have it as a first language
If you dont want to you dont have to after all the official language of this country is English, but see the more knowledge you have more power to you. I know 5 languages, Enlgish,Farsi,French,Polish,and Spanish. I never plan on living in Iran,or France, but I speak Polish with my husband. Anyways the point I am trying to make the more languages you know more power for you.
I don’t agree with that policy but the company has the right to give preference to employees who can speak another language if they believe it will benefit the company. The only option employees have is to seek employment elsewhere if they don’t like the policy.
Amen sister. This is more liberal B.S. You shouldn’t have to learn spanish. In fact, we shouldn’t print voter registration info. in spanish, we shouldn’t teach in spanish, and we sure as heck should not have allowed 20 million spanish speaking mexicans to cross the border!
I mow my own grass.
Stay ignorant, refuse to learn Spanish.
Others will make the effort and they will get ahead of you.
Because America would rather bend it’s back to the illegals and try not to offend anybody rather than having some balls and enforcing our laws, including having to learn English.
Yes! You have a great point! I totally agree! I think that maybe if people that speak Spanish are coming here, then they should learn English so that they can teach English-speaking people Spanish for those that want to learn Spanish. Eh…maybe? What do you think?
I agree with you about language.
I beleive that if you immigrate to any country, you should learn to speak the language of the country. That should be one of the first things a person should do.
I believe I have said that my father immigrated legally from Romania. He came here speaking English, as well as Romanian and Rromanes. I think he spoke a few more as well. I know that he never expected people in America to understand either Romanian or Rromanes.
I lived in San Pablo, California. In that area, at that time (late 90’s to 2000) many of the employers such as McDonalds would not hire you if you were not bilingual in Spanish and English.
I understand why they do it, especially in areas like San Pablo, but I think it should not need to be done.
I also agree with the people who say that such as voter’s information should not be in Spanish or any other language than English.
After all, they came here; we didn’t go there.
The bosses, at my father’s company, recently informed the management that if they want to advance within the company, they would be required to learn Spanish. One man stood up and asked, “Why can’t they learn English?”
Why should US citizens be forced to learn Spanish? Last time I checked, we didn’t go to Mexico to steal jobs and I’m sure if we did, they wouldn’t be learning English to accommodate us.
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FIXED by an illegal. Now, go learn proper English.
Hey, dont be like that. So what if we came here? How do you think they do things like international trade? Also, if you go about it the legal way, you HAVE to learn some english. And don’t go accusin about stealin jobs or none of that cuz a lot of us have to work twice as hard and dot get paid well because people think we aren’t good enough. So before you go runnin your mouth, know what your talkin bout. And dont call us “them” because im a mexican too, and i cant speak english perfectly fine and you dont see people walking up to me saying how come we have to learn your language. and also, we can go wherever we want. we shouldn’t be accused of stealing jobs either, because you have the same opportunity to get those jobs as we do. so maybe you should know what your talking about, before you go accusin and sayin stuff that isn’t true.
WELL THEN, DONT ADVANCE IN YOUR COMPANY… OH MY BAD YOUR DADDY WONT, WHEN ARE ALL OF YOU’S GOING TO REALIZE NO MATTER HOW MANY QUESTIONS YOU ASK ON HERE, HOW MANY **** WEBSITES YOU ALL MAKE, HOW MANY DUMB COMMENTS YOU POST ON YOUR BLOGS WE ARE GOING TO KEEP COMING… AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. GET USED TO US. WE ARE HERE TO STAY. YOU STOLE OUR LAND AND WE ARE TAKING OVER SLOWLY BUT SURELY. LOL. DONT YOU **** IT WHEN IM RIGHT AND YOU AS AN INDIVIDUAL CANT DO NOTHING ABOUT US, HA HAHHAHAHAHA. AND WHEN YOU DO YOU ARE A ******. I LOVE YOUR COUNTRY. JUST FOR THIS DUMB QUESTION IM BRINGING 15 MORE OF MY UNCLES AND AUNTS HERE FROM MEXICO NEXT WEEK. AND YOUR DADDY BETTER LEARN SPANISH OR IM TAKIN HIS JOB. LOL
We are not forced to learn Spanish but it would be a good idea for everyone to do so. The majority of people in the world are at least bi-lingual and those that are not are mostly American’s. Would it suprise you to know that there are 3 times more people that speak English in China than there is in America? There are 6,912 known living languages in the world. You would think that we could at least learn more then one.
Look at the bright side, if you and a friend learned at least partially another language you two could talk to each other in front of others and no one would know what you were saying to each other. It can be fun to learn another language.
So that the Spanish speakers don’t take your job from you when they learn English and have bilungual abilities that you don’t!
ENGLISH ROOLZ !!!!!!
The real reason we have to learn Spanish is the fact that the South Americans are too lazy to learn English. They think that since they’re here illegally, that makes them guests to this country. They think that guests should get their way all the time. I am totally against Spanish becoming a second language in the U.S. English only.
Who said we’re being forced to know Spanish?I live in the U.S. and I’m not being forced to learn Spanish.
I hear you! I live near Canada, I’d rather speak French personally. I took French in high school and loved it. It’s a much nicer language to listen to in my opinion. So why does it have to be Spanish we Americans should be forced to speak. My Husband’s family came from Italy, but they learned to speak English when they got here. It’s not fair to the other nationalities living here, Chinese, Italians etc. we don’t cater to them so why should we cater to Mexicans.
Maybe because they deal with companies out of the country. Perhaps! Its pretty sad you say they steal jobs. You think they are dirt and have no education yet they steal your job. Come on. Doesnt say much for yourself, does it?????
No one is going to be forced to learn any other language. Knowing other languages is a good idea especially when a person goes to college. I speak two languages and my husband speaks four fluently and no one can accuse him of being ignorant.
You shouldnt, as newcomers we have to respect + english in my personal opinion is the BEST and most EVOLVED language in the entire world, so to my fellow Hispanics and newcomers please…RESPECT and you will get FURTHER.
I agree with you 1000%. It is a travesty what is happening in the US with Spanish being almost everywhere. There are Spanish TV and radio stations, web sites have links to translate that page into Spanish, telephone prompts in Spanish. Schools, police departmetns and hospitals have to take money that they couild use for other resources and to teach their employees Spanish! It just doesn’t end!!!
What about all the millions of immigrants who came to the US?? They adapted to the American way of life and learned to speak English!! Why can’t these illegals do the same????????????
I will say this. Growing up I was able to live in several different countries, Germany, Italy, France, and Spain. And never once while living there did I EXPECT them to learn English in order to communicate with me. Why should Americans have to learn to speak Spanish in order to communicate with Hispanics that chose to live here legally or illegally? If you cant speak the language regardless of where you come from GET THE HELL OUT!
It is getting harder and harder in my area to get a job unless you were bilingual, Spanish & English. Pitiful.
What a hater! Why only Mexicans? Then you cry when you’re called a ******. NOBODY is forcing you to learn Spanish. You have to be smart for that!!!!
I agree!
If they think our country is so great, learn OUR language!
because all god damn hispanics are trying to make america into their crappy countries “that there so proud of” (I see this puerto rican in NYC with a flag used as a cape and wearing face paint). Trying to put mexican flags near american ones, singing the national anthem in spanish. It makes me sick! My grandparents from poland had to learn to speak english, the businesses in NYC they went to weren’t teaching their employees polish even though millions of poles were there in the early 1900s. Now we see all these ILLEGAL mexicans coming here, wanting “rights”
Exactly, your business is going down if you don’t start using Spanish. We do learn English but are coming in so quickly that new immigrants don’t speak English. Don’t like it? Deal with it. It’s here to stay.
You didn’t go yo Mexico to steal jobs, you went to Mexico to steal land, remember?
You may want to learn English yourself sweetheart.
“Management at my fathers company recently informed there Bosses…” should be “Management at my father’s company recently informed their bosses…”
In order to understand homophones such as ‘their, there, they’re’ you may want to hit up an ESL class with those immigrants you say aren’t learning English.
We’ve been invaded and our politicians just look the other way.
it broadens your view of the world. Youll be able to go travel and be able to communicate with people. It is also looks good on college and job applications. People who can learn two or more languages do better in reading, writing, and artistic persuits. It is also shown that people who can speak two or more languages are better at retaining information and are generally smarter.
Maybe if Hilarius Hillary is elected she could make it a law.
Oh shut up! The native Americans living in Mexica had to learn Spanish when they were invaded by the Spaniards. Grow up! How does it feel being forced down your throat a new language? Exactly. Dumb White cracka…
US Citizens should not be forced to learn Spanish!! They crawled over and under OUR boarder they need to learn English and our customs.
I agree with you 100%!!! Not to mention I **** it when mexican people come up to me and start talking to me in spanish and I tell them I don’t know it cause I was born here. The get all offended and tell me well I should know it what’s wrong with my parents…How dumb is that!
Sorry to rant…
bcs spanish its the socund must speaked language in the world
You shouldn’t. Although I certainly agree that knowing more than one language is beneficial and rewarding, I do not agree that people who refuse to assimilate to the language of this country should get to choose that language for you. There are, after all, hundreds of languages in the world, and learning any one of them will make you bilingual.
If the illegal has already broken immigration laws their only purpose is to send money to Mexico
Oh hunny, you can just kick back, you don’t have to learn Spanish, because I’ve known both English and Spanish since I was five. And I will be taking that great job you applied for. That’s why my Mexican parents immigrated here so I could succeed in your country. Thank-you