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Videos: Migrants Complain That New Yorkers Don’t Learn African Languages
Modernity ^
| 04 18 2024
| Steve Watson
Posted on 04/24/2024 11:11:38 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: Paladin2
“Uh, F the entitled illegal aliens?”
I’m certain you meant an exclamation point (or three) instead of the question mark.
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posted on
04/24/2024 11:58:07 AM PDT
by
A strike
(There is no tyranny that cannot be justified by 'climate change')
To: waterhill
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posted on
04/24/2024 11:59:34 AM PDT
by
waterhill
(Gonoonqua)
To: waterhill
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posted on
04/24/2024 12:01:05 PM PDT
by
waterhill
(Gonoonqua)
To: ClearCase_guy
Or throw rocks at trees trying to knock down dinner.
To: Red Badger
EXACTLY. My grandparents all came from the old country, and they had to learn English. They did get any special sort of treatment. AND THEY CAME HERE LEGALLY.
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posted on
04/24/2024 12:07:10 PM PDT
by
telescope115
(I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
To: telescope115
When my husband’s great grandparents came here, the kids weren’t allowed to speak Italian. They wanted them to speak English and assimilate.
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posted on
04/24/2024 12:10:15 PM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: Bonemaker
Practically the only phrase I learned while stationed in Sicily.
Well that and...”dov’è il bagno?”.
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posted on
04/24/2024 12:11:16 PM PDT
by
moovova
("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
To: telescope115
When I go to a foreign country, I try to learn the language.
At least they seem to appreciate it.
I don’t demand that they speak my language................
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posted on
04/24/2024 12:11:25 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
I bet most of them do have some English. It’s become the ‘lingua franca’ of the world, and most educated people have to study it in school to some extent.
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posted on
04/24/2024 12:14:29 PM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: yesthatjallen
I dare them to go to Harlem and say that to the local black folk.
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posted on
04/24/2024 12:14:57 PM PDT
by
Polyxene
(Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord. Lord, hear my voice: Psalm 130)
To: telescope115
Ditto. My grandparents arrived at Ellis Island in October 1927 from Germany with their three kids ages 7, 5, and 3. That was just nine year after WW I ended. Speaking German in the Bronx wasn’t a good idea or conducive to long and healthy life. They prospered and moved up to Westchester County in less than ten years.
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posted on
04/24/2024 12:21:29 PM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward SnowdenA)
To: yesthatjallen
English seems to be a lingua franca in black Africa. In Germany, the Goethe Institute runs schools that offer intensive courses in German to foreigners. When I attended one of these schools, I had classmates from several African countries. They would speak to each other in English because their native African languages were mutually unintelligible.
To: Jamestown1630
I knew a woman in East Texas whose family came here from Germany in the 1920’s. Her dad would beat her if she spoke German. I met her when she was in her 60’s and she spoke good English but still had a German accent.
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posted on
04/24/2024 12:29:52 PM PDT
by
Texas resident
(Biden=Obama=Jarrett=Soros)
To: Fiji Hill
I’ve encountered Chinese students who have to do that; they don’t understand one another’s brand of Chinese.
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posted on
04/24/2024 12:30:44 PM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: yesthatjallen
we’re importing “gibsmedats”, as if we didn’t already have enough of them already.
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posted on
04/24/2024 12:31:56 PM PDT
by
zeugma
(Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
To: yesthatjallen
We’ve been giving in to the Spanish language crap for decades. Why not Watusi, etc.?
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posted on
04/24/2024 12:39:29 PM PDT
by
MayflowerMadam
(Navarro didn't kill himself.)
To: Jamestown1630
I understand that the Mandarin and Cantonese dialects of Chinese are about as mutually understandable as English and German.
To: yesthatjallen
I SPEAK JIVE DOES THAT COUNT?
To: Fiji Hill
I don’t know - I’ve never attempted to learn any Chinese, it seems so daunting.
(At least Korean has an alphabet...)
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posted on
04/24/2024 12:55:52 PM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: yesthatjallen
I think most of the Congolese languages are in the Bantu family of languages...so once you master one of them, learning the second one may not be hard.
But why not spend the effort learning a language which has a rich literature or which is helpful to know when traveling?
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