Bilingualism on Rise

San Antonio Express News ^ | 10/09/2003 | Sonya Garza

[BJungNan]

No, you misunderstood or I did not say it clearly.

Where someone wants to put up a sign in a foreign language, the sign must also contain English and the English word/letters must be twice as big as the foriegn letters/words.

Like this

JungNans Cafe
$%#@#$% @#$@

[4Freedom]

More and more federal government jobs are requiring a knowledge of the Spanish language.

In many states, you won't be hired by U.S. Customs, if you don't speak Spanish or refuse to take a 5 week course and receive a passing grade.

Soon, at this rate, all federal job announcements will be in Spanish only.

[raybbr]

Garcia said being bilingual opened doors for her, affording her professional opportunities, including earning more money. "I think it's beneficial from every aspect — economically, socially ... definitely financially, academically," she said.

This is true only if the other language is Spanish.

I wonder what Ms. Garcia's reaction would be if we chose to have signs written in German or Polish as well. Would she as supportive?

Remember. When bilingualism is spoken of here in the United States it means Spanish. No other language, even English, is revered as much as spanish in our deteriorating culture. The further dilution of our culture is the goal of these socialists!

[raybbr]

Go to Miami airport. All of the announcements are in spanish first. It really teed me off when our flight was cancelled and all those wonderfull hispanics knew where to go first for the replacement flight. I ended up at the back of the line because of that.

[wildbill]

Too many job advertisements now specify only bi-lingual applicants need apply or that they will receive preference.

Doesn't this mean that native English speakers are being discriminated against?

[4Freedom]

I don't believe that more than 400 million people ever spoke Spanish world-wide and as a language it was on its way to joining Latin on the scrap heap, that is until the greatest nation on the face of the earth started to prop it up for some inexplicable, PC reason.

It's like bringing back the buggy whip.

Think of the resources we're wasting as a nation by saving the Spanish language from oblivion.