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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: redman555 on July 13, 2008, 02:28:06 PM
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Wow, was watching news other night.. now hes trying 2 force all people to go to school and learn Mexican... i don't think so... thing i don't understand, how can the illegals come over, get free welfare and all that, and they don't gotta go 2 school to learn English
-BigBOBCH
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Yes, he's insisting we are all narrow minded if we do not take it upon ourselves to learn spanish.
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Wow, was watching news other night.. now hes trying 2 force all people to go to school and learn Mexican... i don't think so... thing i don't understand, how can the illegals come over, get free welfare and all that, and they don't gotta go 2 school to learn English
-BigBOBCH
Big Bob :salute
While the polls might be close now, when it gets down to town hall & debates the country will see he is so far off to the left politically that Teddy Kennedy can't even see him to wave, and Hillary would need to take a jet to visit him.
Unelectable.
ROX
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personally, i could care less, this is AMERICA... we should speak english not Spanish.... and we shouldent be forced to... when Obama said that, i pretty much flipped the TV off lol :D
-BigBOBCH
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El español es fácil. Usted debe aprenderlo apenas así que usted sabrá cuándo la gente hispánica está hablando de usted en la parada de autobús.
(Spanish is easy. You should learn it just so you will know when Hispanic people are talking about you at the bus stop.)
:aok
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El español es fácil. Usted debe aprenderlo apenas así que usted sabrá cuándo la gente hispánica está hablando de usted en la parada de autobús.
(Spanish is easy. You should learn it just so you will know when Hispanic people are talking about you at the bus stop.)
:aok
:lol
English is easy...and they prolly already know it and know exactly what people say at the bus stop.
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Unelectable.
ROX
Yup, I've been saying this all along.
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English is easy
depending on your native toung, english is one of the hardest languages to learn.
for spanish speakers, an "easy" language to learn would be Portuguese because of the little vocabulary and grammer you would need to learn
French is also a fairly easy language for spanish speaking people to pick up, english is not an easy language for spanish speaking americans
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depending on your native toung, english is one of the hardest languages to learn.
for spanish speakers, an "easy" language to learn would be Portuguese because of the little vocabulary and grammer you would need to learn
French is also a fairly easy language for spanish speaking people to pick up, english is not an easy language for spanish speaking americans
Since english is so hard to learn, I guess Japanese would be easier
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Wow, was watching news other night.. now hes trying 2 force all people to go to school and learn Mexican... i don't think so... thing i don't understand, how can the illegals come over, get free welfare and all that, and they don't gotta go 2 school to learn English
-BigBOBCH
What's gets me lately is Obama's rising arrogance.
In every recent interview, he constantly answers questions like "...when I'm president" bla bla bla - like he's talking like it's all over and he's already won the contest before it's even begun.
Like hasn't he ever heard the story about 'don't count your chickens before...' ?
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I wish I could learn to speak Mexican but then I'd have to learn new words for tamale, flauta, fajita, enchilada, etc...
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Since english is so hard to learn, I guess Japanese would be easier
look at some jpn scripts and it's like the combination of chinese, arabic/farsi, and hebrew :cry
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Wow, was watching news other night.. now hes trying 2 force all people to go to school and learn Mexican... i don't think so... thing i don't understand, how can the illegals come over, get free welfare and all that, and they don't gotta go 2 school to learn English
-BigBOBCH
You watch Lou Dobbs on CNN?
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Yes, he's insisting we are all narrow minded if we do not take it upon ourselves to learn spanish.
He was on GMA and he was asked about how he was gonna deal with Iran, and he said we should all learn Spanish... :huh
Talking Spanish to the Iranians doesn't prove anything.
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I could care less about obama, but I think he's just stressing the importance for US natives to learn some foreign language to give US businesses the competitive edge when making deals wiotgh foreigners.
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I could care less about obama, but I think he's just stressing the importance for US natives to learn some foreign language to give US businesses the competitive edge when making deals wiotgh foreigners.
No, he's pandering for votes.
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Wow, 2 threads on the same subject.
http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,240857.0.html (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,240857.0.html)
The search button is your friend. :)
BTW, Obama's right. Everyone should know more than one language. It's just common sense.
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No, he's pandering for votes.
Everyone does. McCain even went to the La Raza (NCLR) It's no secret that hispanic vote is very important (blacks are 3rd, euros + asians distant 4th).
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I could care less about obama, but I think he's just stressing the importance for US natives to learn some foreign language to give US businesses the competitive edge when making deals wiotgh foreigners.
I think he pretty clearly stated people should be forced to learn Spanish (as opposed to "some foreign language").
Personally I think people should have a choice - I'm not a fan of The Elite controlling our lives down to the last detail.
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Wow, 2 threads on the same subject.
http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,240857.0.html (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,240857.0.html)
The search button is your friend. :)
BTW, Obama's right. Everyone should know more than one language. It's just common sense.
No Obama said everyone should know Spanish.
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English + Spanish = More than 1 language.
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English + Spanish = More than 1 language.
Why Spanish ? Makes a lot more sense to pick up French or Chinese.
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See Rule #5
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Anglos living in the SW have tended to know a little "cowpen Spanish" as a practical matter since as long as Anglos have been living in the SW. It is not learning a foriegn language per se that upsets people, it is that a different language and culture is taking over the area in which they live by sheer force of numbers over night and no one seems willing to talk about it frankly, let alone do anything about it.
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Wow, was watching news other night.. now hes trying 2 force all people to go to school and learn Mexican... i don't think so... thing i don't understand, how can the illegals come over, get free welfare and all that, and they don't gotta go 2 school to learn English
-BigBOBCH
New Jersey, if you attend pubic grade school you learn spanish grades 1-8
Its mandated.
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Why Spanish ? Makes a lot more sense to pick up French or Chinese.
I understand why you said Chinese, however, French? There are a lot more countries in the world that speak Spanish than French. I speak French, but Spanish makes more business sense.
North Carolina requires spanish K-5.
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I understand why you said Chinese, however, French? There are a lot more countries in the world that speak Spanish than French. I speak French, but Spanish makes more business sense.
North Carolina requires spanish K-5.
The USA's largest trading partner is Canada. French (as well as English) is Canada's official language. China is the USA's 2nd largest trading partner, followed by Mexico.
Just saying, if international trade is the main factor in learning a second language, then French and Chinese should arguably come before Spanish.
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I could care less about obama, but I think he's just stressing the importance for US natives to learn some foreign language to give US businesses the competitive edge when making deals wiotgh foreigners.
You know when you're flying in a plane to lets say China, the person in the control tower speaks English... Same thing with almost any country. :aok
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The USA's largest trading partner is Canada. French (as well as English) is Canada's official language. China is the USA's 2nd largest trading partner, followed by Mexico.
Just saying, if international trade is the main factor in learning a second language, then French and Chinese should arguably come before Spanish.
Learning French and/or Spanish is only comon sense for Americans, depending on your location. Canada and Mexico are border countries. Learning Chinese is also a viable choice. Just for reference, many Europeans know 5 or 6 languages. It just makes sense to be able to communicate with your neighbors or buisness partners.
That is unless you don't want to be unable to understand the chit-chat during a business transaction. Yeah, they are saying how impressed they are with your political convictions and respect you enough to give you the best price.
You go, Joe!
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Give it 10 years and Spanish will be your primary language the way things are going.
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You know when you're flying in a plane to lets say China, the person in the control tower speaks English... Same thing with almost any country. :aok
Exactly :aok!!! The language of aviation is English. So if you're an airline pilot you need to know english. I don't believe that general aviation pilots have to learn english.
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personally, i could care less, this is AMERICA... we should speak english not Spanish....
I could care less about obama, but I think he's just stressing the importance for US natives to learn some foreign language to give US businesses the competitive edge when making deals wiotgh foreigners.
Those of us who speak English should try to learn what we say is sometimes not what we mean.
If I could care less, that means that I do care at some level so that it is possible for me to care less than that level.
If I could NOT care less, it means that my level of care is so small it is impossible for me to care less.
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It's great to learn languages, but is an obvious pandering to Mexicans and next small step to making Spanish first into "one of the acceptable US languages" and perhaps eventually the official language. At some point the hispanics will be a majority.
It's a matter of time when the schools will educate in Spanish only (they already do the idiotic and counterproductive bi-lingual crap). After all why should we inconvenience the illegal, if we can force our kids and teachers to learn Spanish (by a Presidential decree no less).
Why is the President (or a candidate) even involved in stuff like that. This is not in his job description. It is a business of the Congress either. Dept of Education should be abolished.
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Why is a candidate even involved in stuff like that.
He's for change... a BIG change for the worse.
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Give it 10 years and Spanish will be your primary language the way things are going.
No, it'll probably be Arab or Chinese... :noid
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Wouldn't learning Chinese be a more usefull second language?
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No, it'll probably be Arab or Chinese... :noid
Arab is a language?
Tronsky
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I didn't read all the posts so I don't know if someone else has already mentioned this, but in quite a few countries around the world they teach there students two languages, their native language & English.
I don't see anything wrong with our students to learn a second language, it's not like learning Spanish is going to hurt them or anything, if anything it's only gonna come in handy in their life's.