Posted on 06/06/2007 6:41:56 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3
around here, the mid-west, truckers earn about 600 - 700 a week! and if they own their own truck they make about 1,100 or so. My sister’s brother-in-law owes a trucking company and that’s what he pays. I’d say for around here, that’s good wages!
You've never taught ESL, have you? I have and reading and writing English v. speaking english are totally different skills.
If you want to drive on roads here in North America with big things like commercial trucks it is in your best interest to be able to speak English and be able to communicate effectively the language of this great country.
I don't disagree with that point. People should be able to read, write and speak English before being allowed to drive large trucks all over the place. I'm just saying that speaking English v. reading and writing English and totally different skills and just because one can pass a written driving test doesn't mean that they should automatically be able to speak English as well.
This’ll get overturned tomorrow.
Way too much common sense...
Mandarin Chinese falls in that category too. Speaking is easy. Reading/writing the pictographs is a major undertaking. Arabic is fairly easy to read, but requires a different inflection when addressing male/female persons.
English is so easy..."We eat what we can and what we can't we can."
November 1994, a fiery crash killed six children from Chicago’s southwest side. The accident was caused by a truck driver who illegally obtained his Illinois commercial drivers license.
Ricardo Guzman cannot speak English and does not have the proper training to drive or maintain his truck. During a delivery to Milwaukee, a chunk of metal fell off his trailer, hit and punctured the gas tank in a family van owned by the Rev. Scott Willis and his wife.
And the money goes to politician campaign funds....
How’s that for IL politics?
The last time I was in the Poway, CA DMV office, I directly observed DMV employees pointing to the correct answers on a written driver's license exam. Both parties (DMV employee and test taker) were speaking in Spanish. This was in 2000. More fraud. More Motor Voter registrations. Likely illegal alien getting a drivers license and a license to vote in our elections. Certainly not a naturalized citizen with demonstrated proficiency in English.
Damn, that looks like a refugee from a Mad Max movie.
I did, but I speak German and understand the road signs. Ditto for driving in Wales. I speak Welsh as well. I read and understand enough Turkish to handle driving in Izmir, but the drivers are just too crazy there. I also avoided driving in Rome. I could read and speak enough Italian to get a cab when I needed it. That came in handy one evening as the train operators called a strike. It was necessary as I had taken my wife to dinner at an Indian restaurant and it was 15 miles back to the hotel.
Last time I looked, all road signs were in ENGLISH. NOT any other language. Makes me ill to think about what happens on our roads with these loonies.
Signs in the U.S. are definitely in English. Drivers here should be able to read them. When you drive in a place like Belgium, you need to be prepared in French, German and Dutch. Traveling from Brussels to Mons you have to be prepared to see Mons called "Bergen" in the German area. The signs approaching a hairpin curve in Wales say, "Arafwch Nawr!". Translated that is "Slow now!". If you don't comprehend it, you may well run off the road and down a steep ravine.
“as a student in undergrad.”
Gee, I’ve heard of Leningrad and Stalingrad, but not Undergrad.
Heh, heh! Just kidding. Actually, I was deployed to Uzbekistan 2003-04, so I was in the former USSR. But the Russian imprint of 150 years occupation was everywhere. For one thing it was far easier to learn some Russian to communicate with Uzbeks than to attempt their Turkic-based language.
Actually, it wasn’t bad where we were. Too bad our State Department managed to get the U.S. kicked out of UZ in 2005. Google “Andizhan” for more info.
That, by its own definition, would make us gay....
Oooops.
Depends on what you mean by "speaking." If you mean reading out loud something written in the language, then I agree with you. When I lived in Korea, once I got a grasp on the pronunciation of the characters I could read it out loud pretty well but if you mean conversation then it is NOT easy until you have a sufficient vocabulary and practice to do so.
Gaaaaa!
Shouldn't someone from the DoJ be having a little talk with certain states' Attorneys General?
Free Clue:
I just saw that movie a couple of weekends ago - it was better than I remembered it being. At the time I thought that plane was extremely unlikely looking, but now I can see that the set/model designer knew a little something about stealth technology. The special effects/flight scenes were pretty cheezy by today’s standard, though, or even compared to something like “Top Gun”.
I made about 10 calls to Dems that I thought would change their stance. By the time you read this the bill might be dead anyway, and this amendment would be back to square one. The English as the National Language Amendment was authored by Senator Inhofe. Please call his office to thank him for the proposal, and encourage him not to give up the fight.
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