Posted on 12/25/2008 11:53:50 AM PST by I can has Low Taxes?
And she is in this country legally. . .right?
I would hope so, but usually illegals don’t speak English.
I already speak Spanish, but once amnesty is passed we will have to learn it as it will become the national language. Eitrher that or arabic the way things are going.
I don’t consider Spanish a bad idea, but I would prefer my kids learn Korean, German and then Japanese. This is because of my work, and personal life, however.
Learning spanish may help them communicate better with their employers later on in life and build goodwill across culutures. :-D
LOL@ your screen name
“I already speak Spanish, but once amnesty is passed we will have to learn it as it will become the national language. Eitrher that or arabic the way things are going.”
Arabic really seems a stretch. Per the 2000 census there were 1.2 million Arabs in America, and 70% of those were Christians. I used to live in Southern California, and it seemed like all the liquor stores were run by Syrian, Lebanese, or Iraqi Christians.
Most Muslims in America, presumably, aren’t Arabs, but are Pakistanis, Indians, Bangladeshis, etc. I tried getting info on the Muslim population, but there aren’t any official stats, and guesses range from 1-8 million, which is a huge margin of error.
I’d imagine most Muslims don’t speak Arabic, outside of rote reciting religious verse, any more than most Catholics speak Latin or Orthodox speak Greek/Slavonic.
So yeah, Spanish is going to be the most influential language in the US, for better or for worse, for the foreseeable future. Chinese might be good for international business, but I don’t see it coming up much domestically.
Thanks for the tip. That’s a great idea for a book. It’s a wonder it’s not currently in print.
Well, like other people have said, the Latin taught in schools isn’t the Latin used in churches... can her parents actually stop her from taking it if she just signs up anyways? For one, it’ll help her immensely with her SAT scores and such. Also, I took two years of high school Latin before going to a school where that wasn’t an option, where I took one semester of Spanish and one semester of French. I can say that, thanks to taking classical Latin, learning those two languages was literally effortless, and even with only a single high school semester of each, I can mostly understand and read Spanish and French.
It’s not inappropriate.
But the sad part is that it may be necessary.
Count on it. Last thing we should be doing is speaking Spanish to the illegals.
She should take them all. Russian is beautiful, though reading and writing Cyrillic requires a bit of work at first.
I found that French and Spanish conflicted. The Spanish sort of pushed the French out of my memory. Too many similar words.
“My housekeeper thought I fired her...”
TOO FUNNY!!! Please share!!!! What happened?!!!!
(My first language was Spanish because my parents wanted us kids to have a good basis for Spanish before attending Canal Zone schools. I have always been extremely grateful to my parents for that.)
Your hermitically sealed mind in almost every subject never ceases to amaze me.
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