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To: Olog-hai

20 years applying for a housing lottery, yet she still has to speak through a translator?


2 posted on 02/28/2018 10:51:33 PM PST by GnuThere
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To: GnuThere

Talk about a lost generation.


4 posted on 02/28/2018 10:57:29 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: GnuThere
20 years applying for a housing lottery, yet she still has to speak through a translator?

When I first brought my then Thai wife to the US, she spoke almost no English, and we had to converse in Thai. Got her enrolled in and ESL class, plus her self studying, and within a few months she could speak English to the degree she got a job a local restaurant.

It was a funny household, with me, the tall white guy speaking Thai so I could maintain my language skills, and her speaking English to enhance hers.

I don't understand how people come to the US, and after 20yrs still need a translator.

9 posted on 03/01/2018 12:02:52 AM PST by mikefive (RLTW/DOL)
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To: GnuThere

And two teenaged kids.

Can’t afford a roof but...


21 posted on 03/01/2018 4:12:38 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Ask a lib if Alger Hiss colluded with the Russians.)
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To: GnuThere

I didn’t think English was that hard to learn. But many Italians never learned English after moving to the US in the early part of the 20th century.


26 posted on 03/01/2018 6:04:32 AM PST by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: GnuThere

EXACTLY——NOT a person who wishes to ASSIMILATE...

No wonder we have problems.

Do I get to guess how much $$$ she contributes to this country in taxes on earned income???


31 posted on 03/01/2018 6:58:09 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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