Posted on 03/25/2025 10:05:57 AM PDT by fwdude
When my maternal grandfather, Israel Whitman, came to the U.S. from czarist Russia, he wouldn't allow Yiddish to be spoken in his home. He knew that English was the key to success and believed he had a duty to his adopted country to speak its native tongue and ensure that his children did so.
His descendants included businessmen, lawyers, doctors, judges, columnists and tenured professors of English literature.
Without English, we can't make America great again. The key to national revival is borders, law and language.
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None of my grandparents spoke English. They came here about 1910...My Mom and dad were born in 1917. Mom didn’t speak English until she was 6...
Same with my mom’s family. They were from Germany and came here before WWII in the 20’s. My mom was born here, but only German was spoken in the house. Her parent made their children go out in the streets and learn English from the neighborhood kids. Her parents got to work learning English as well, although they cloistered together in German neighborhood social groups.
And stop print government forms in all the languages of the world. As far as that goes, no localized websites either. Learn the language or you have two options: leave or suffer.
Especially election ballots. Citizenship requires being proficient in English. Why in the world would that not be required for voters?
I have ancestors who came to this country just prior to the Civil War. They spoke only English within a couple of years. They spoke none when they got here. Same for others who arrived later.
Whenever I would visit, they used English - no Swedish.
America was shocked when it had to start pressing one to not have the interaction done in Mexican, and then all our food labels and boxes became Mexican and English.
That schoolhouse still exists as a private residence.
bttt
Jasmine Crockett can’t speak English.
My uncle was a little boy, and my mom was a toddler. He would never have been arrested in the first place if he had known how to speak English. So, my grandmother made him learn to speak English immediately. He was a very smart man and was completely fluent within a few months although he always sounded like Stan Boreson doing one of his comedy routines.
When one of my great-grandfathers came to America from France in 1774 he refused to speak anything but English and quickly joined a militia company to fight with Washington’s army against the British.
All gubmint documents must be printed in English only
Anyone not understanding them should get an interpreter, at their own expense
I am close to the Vietnamese community here and have have been since the refugees began to come before 1980. I noticed eventually that the families that demanded only English in the home even though a the parents were deficient in the language had children that grew up speaking heavily accented English. Those that spoke Vietnamese in the home while learning English in classes had children that learned their English playing with native neighbor kids and in school grew up proficient in both languages and carried the accents of he local people and of the regions of origin of their parents. Having two languages gives them advantage in school. Those with two languages do better than those who have English only. My theory is that two languages give a kid two mental paths to calculate understand.
I knew a Danish family whose parents came from Denmark
The kids often ask if they would teach them how to speak Danish.
The folks ALWAYS said, we are here now, forget about that.
Most of these Mexicans WILL NOT, even attempt to learn English.
When they talk to each other in Spanish in front of us, although i know very little, i start talking to my wife in Gaelic.
Boy does that mess with their minds.
See my tagline:
Similar story here. The grandfather who never could get rid of the Russian accent was "100% American".
His phrase not mine.
My Granparemts would speak Yiddish when they didn’t want my Dad to know what they were saying.
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