In areas with a large Spanish-speaking population, private businesses often print in both English and Spanish. Makes good business sense. Realistically, learning Spanish is smart. Many employers prefer someone bilingual if they have a lot of Spanish-speaking customers. We need to face reality. Teach kids Spanish from elementary school up. I grew up in So. Fla. and they won.
I grew up in California. They can speak English.
"We need to face reality."
I guess you got a mouse in your pocket. I am not part of your "we".
NO sir, T H E Y need to leanr E N G L I S H.
Nuff said.
I agree with you to a point. It does make good business sense to be able to conduct business in Spanish if that is what your customers want. I do not, however, support teaching every kid Spanish from elementary school on up. On the contrary, schools need to devote more resources to teaching every kid to read and write English properly. We are making it too easy for people to get by without learning the primary language of this country--English.
English is the international language of business. If you want to be sucessful at anything learn english.... nuff said!!!
Bilingual? How about monoligual, only in Spanish? Mexican fast food workers in San Diego often can't speak rudimentary English; case in point: I had to translate salt into Spanish (sal) before the clerk could understand me. Use Spanish when necessary, but preserve our language, English, which after all is the world language!!
Bilingual? How about monoligual, only in Spanish? Mexican fast food workers in San Diego often can't speak rudimentary English; case in point: I had to translate salt into Spanish (sal) before the clerk could understand me. Use Spanish when necessary, but preserve our language, English, which after all is the world language!!
Agreed, if you live in Spain or Mexico, or maybe southern California. Here in the midwest, we think that's crap!
I have. A person either CHOOSES to learn English or doesn't. See? THAT was simple!