Posted by LJ on 6/28/07 1:18pm
Msg #197456

Simple song to think about

YouTube - Press One For English

Reply by LJ on 6/28/07 2:01pm
Msg #197474

sorry here's the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEJfS1v-fU0

Reply by jba/fl on 6/28/07 2:42pm
Msg #197488

hummmm..now if I could just read the signs in E. Orlando n/m

Reply by Sylvia_FL on 6/28/07 2:59pm
Msg #197493

Re: hummmm..now if I could just read the signs in E. Orlando

We were on Semoran Blvd - around Lake Underhill area - earlier in the year and we hardly recognised it. Thought we had wandered into a different country - and we didn't have our passports with us!

Reply by Sharon Taylor on 6/28/07 3:11pm
Msg #197499

I would happily tutor someone in English

and at the same time I would benefit by learning a bit of the other person's language. It is absolutely essential that persons who live and work here learn English, the common language of this country, and I think those who intend to stay here do that for the most part. Unfortunately some immigrants refuse to grasp that they must become part of the culture where they chose to move, not that the culture must change to become the same as the country they left. English is not an easy language, especially American English because we use so many colloquialisms and slang expressions, but if I moved to France or Germany or the Netherlands or Spain, I would surely need to learn the common language of that country ASAP. We cannot accommodate every single lanuage of every single immigrant, so it is up to the person moving here to become adapted as quickly as he or she can.

Reply by PJM/MI on 6/28/07 4:45pm
Msg #197519

Re: Well said.. (rather sung!) N/M n/m

Reply by CJ on 6/28/07 7:18pm
Msg #197538

Re: sorry here's the link

I am so sick of showing up to people's houses (who have been here for decades) and they say, (in English) "Why don't you speak Spainish?". I get so upset. I want to yell, "Why the hell don't you speak English?!". If a mobile notary came to my house in Mexico, do you think they would send an English speaking one? My grandparents learned English when they came here from Denmark, and they can do the same. And my grandparents didn't get on the dole either.

Reply by Dorothy_MI on 6/28/07 7:40pm
Msg #197544

So far the people have prevailed

Again today the Senate voted No on Closure to the ILLEGAL alien Amnesty bill. All because we (Americans) spoke up very vocally and kept the pressure on them that we did not want 12 - 20 million more mostly poorly educated people automatically becoming eligible for even more FREE government handouts (only free for them, WE on the other hand would pay dearly).