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Spanish was spoken in many places now states before English ever was. I was started studying our de facto second language at the age of 13 and do pretty well with it.
tkyrchncs
What a load. LMAO
Maybe we should be speaking Native American. LOL
There is absolutely no reason people in America shouldn't speak whatever language they wish. Norse was probably the first European language spoken in America, and Spanish was almost certainly the second. California and Mexico were Spanish possessions, including Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and Nevada, while 13 little British colonies struggled along on the east coast. You may not like it Wolfie, but it's not a load, y puedo hablar, leer, y escribir espanol, senor.
'In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.'
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
Pretty much says it all!
Even the dead are entitled to their opinions, it seems. Just not the right to vote! LOL
By the way, I agree with nearly all of it, except the language part. Do you realize what a bunch of ignoramuses we are thought to be by the rest of the world because most of us only speak one, and expect everyone else to speak it too?
To be perfectly honest, I couldn't care less what Europe or the rest of the world thinks of us. The United States is the greatest country on this planet.
Agreed. And it is in no danger from other languages OR voter fraud.
I couldn't disagree more
tkyrchncs, your side cracks me up. While the rest of the world makes every effort to learn the international language of business, which is English, your side wants to learn "Mexican". I've been to Spain and what we're being taught isn't considered Spanish in Spain. The have a few words for it but Spanish isn't one of them.
If you're going to learn a language that will be used in the future, that wouldn't be Mexican. Try Russian, German, French, Japanese, a Chinese dialect, or the like. So unless your going to work food service, learn proper English.
English is my mother tongue, sir, and I am quite proficient in it. My Spanish teachers have been from all over the Spanish-speaking world, and Castillano, the mother-tongue of the versions of Spanish spoken in the Americas, is but one of six or so spoken in Spain. I regularly entertain English teachers from Spain, Mexico, and Argentina who are here accompanying hs exchange students. The largest native tongue in the world is Mandarin, the second-largest Spanish. I am already 53, so I am interested in talking to my neighbors today, not what may be useful in the future, so I have concentrated on my Spanish, though I am also ok in French and Italian.
Do you think the Brits don't make fun of your English? Do you think the French don't make fun of the Quebecois? Who cares? I have always found others to be charmed that I try to speak to them in their native tongue, just as I am when I unexpectedly hear English.