I am competent because I didn’t like sitting in school and not understanding anything anyone said. I didn’t like translating everything for my parents either.
It wasn’t easy. There were no english-spanish classes back then and that would have helped a lot. I mostly learned from watching English cartoons and television. It worked but for at least 4 or 5 years I was made fun of, because a lot of what I said came straight from George Jetson, or underdog.
Trust me, almost all of the spanish speaking immigrants that I know have experienced the same process. After a complete generation here in the US, the children are completely Americanized and speak fluent English, whether the parents want it or not. It is a natural culturization process.
Freedom and personal contentment never does come easy.
It's a hard earned sacrifice that requires devotion and conviction.
My blessed country's conception was based upon this mindset which made us the most sought after country to live in to achieve personal freedom and contentment.
Why mess with it via change from it's original format?
It is, but it is one that every effort is being made to erode. You and your children have moved to the language of the mainstream, because success is impossible without it. But there is an ongoing campaign to reduce or eliminate the need to adapt, yet just enough to "get by".
Personally, I believe that it is ultimately more damaging to facilitate the language ghettos than to put pressure on the early adaption. They become like generational welfare bums: just comfortable in the position to coast and never achieve. It creates an easily manipulatable population for the Galavision crowd to control.
Don’t you think that somebody who can legally vote should know enough English to read a ballot? I had 2 semesters of spanish 25 years ago and I can read a ballot in Spanish.. When I go to Mexico I brush up on my Spanish enough to undertand the basics..
I am fine with all the mutl language media but people should learn the language basics of the country they reside IMHO.