Toronodo I agree!! I am AA and I want our America to be free of people who do not speak our language. I ride the city bus to work and back home and all I hear is jibberish from Mexs and other ppl who do not speak OUR LANGUAGE!! I believe that if they are going live here we should be able to understand what the hell they are talking about. It's not fair to us that we as Americans have to put up with ppl who disregard OUR WAY OF LIVING!! What do you think?
Learn Spanish, it's not really all that hard. It's fun actually being fluent in another language. Personally, I'm semi-fluent, I can find directions, and stuff like that, but I'm working on being fluent.
What's funny is that that is the same arguement held by Nativists against Germans, Italians, Irish, Scottish, Slavs, Poles, Greeks, Africans and Native Americans. And if I spoke in my first dialect, you probably wouldn't be able to understand me far as us speaking face to face. In writing, it's much easier than spoken, since we speak much quicker and change pace and contractions're fluid.
I was born in the USA and my FIRST language was English and my second was Spanish but as I got older and didn't need to use it the Spanish went by the wayside. I do remember Dos, Quatros...
Caspar, myself, I'm a lover of all tongues. I'm currently very stupidly trying to learn Dutch. And OMG is it hard. But if you learn other languages, you have the opprotunity to make more friends and have a richer life.