First off I dont want to upset or insult anyone, its not my intention. But..........HOW THE ^^^^!! CAN YOU RESIDE IN THIS COUNTRY AND NOT BE ABLE TO SPEAK ENGLISH????? Ive only been here 10 months and Ive had to try and interpret 4 different kinds of languages. If you ask me, this isnt helping these people. People ask me, do I speak spanish ( Im mexican/indian) and I say no, sorry. And they get pissed. THEY DONT EVEN TRY!!?? I actually do speak spanish and russian, but why should I? Its not going to help them in the future? Im from south texas, ( and yes I can drive way better than 98% of this population), where I thought that we had a language barrier and I have to say, wow....what a difference. We ( Denver) have spanish as the first language, arabic as a second, chinese and japanese are a tie for 3rd, along with misc languages and then 4th comes english. If I were to move to france( hell no) I would learn to speak french. When asked why the hell I dont speak spanish, my answer is simple and I reply in spanish...because I dont live in Mexico. And yes I know Colorado is spanish, do we have to start using the peso?

 

For what its worth, I agree with you. To paraphrase, "When in America, do as the Americans do."

 

Preach on bortha!

 

I agree totally, I just moved out here last August and I'm lost sometimes because people look at me like I'm evil for speaking English. even though I speak German as well, last I knew English is the official language of the country.

BTW, most of the misc laguages are the African immigrnats speaking their different languages. see and hear it all the time on campus.

 

You're preaching to the choir.

In Tucson and many other cities around here there are even billboards written in Spanish.

I thought this was America! Huh?! Isn't this America?! I'm sorry, I thought this was America!

 

We have billboards in spanish too, but what kills it for me is spanish billboards for english movies!! WTF???

 

West Virginia is the only state I know with an official state language (English).

 

here they have dual language schools. this way the big bad Americans can't force the kids to learn English and take away their heritage.

 

I hear what your saying man...i used to live in riverside california, and i was a minority there!!
I live in colorado springs now, and its getting worse every day!