ELLOS ROBAN NUESTRA TRABAJAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS!

Um...okay...uh...I'll have a...chalupa and...um...honey, what did you want?...oh yeah...a chicken quesadilla...am I pronouncing that right?...and two diet Pepsis...grassyass.

Howie Spankowitz: Um...okay...uh...I'll have a...chalupa and...um...honey, what did you want?...oh yeah...a chicken quesadilla...am I pronouncing that right?...and two diet Pepsis...grassyass.

Most English speaking students aren't going to do much better in a class taught in English than a Spanish speaking student.

/Cause our childrens is dumb.

Tiles judge orders to set ed of the bilingual one of the secondary-school

How, exactly, is this obvious?

Actually, that would be escuela secundario but yeah, I'll have the carne asada with an order of chili fries. Muy bien.

Does Mexico mandate bilingual English/Spanish classes for their students? Because it'd be really helpful for those headed north.

Snarfangel: Does Mexico mandate bilingual English/Spanish classes for their students?

Why should they pay for it when we are more being ordered to?

This thread is as badly written as an Jap-ENGRISH ad.

this is soooo easy to fix.
mower.
sink.
trash.
baby.
concrete.
....
then just teach the verbs..

I was to understand that there would be pedidos in this thread.....

Snarfangel: Does Mexico mandate bilingual English/Spanish classes for their students? Because it'd be really helpful for those headed north.

you made me laugh and pee a little

This is Fark.COM, not Fark.MX.

What do you call a person who only speaks one language?

an American.

/Culture phoquers, get some.

You know, the public education system was originally created to make the dirty mics learn English. I don't see why the rules should be any different for Spanish speakers. You English bastards almost destroyed Gaelic. Might as well do the same for the rest of the immigrants.

FTFA: In a statement, MALDEF hailed the ruling as the "most comprehensive legal decision concerning the civil rights of English language learners in the last 25 years."

If this is to actually help them to learn to speak English better, then I am all for it. Somehow... I don't think this is the case.
More like a "dumb it down so they don't have to learn English" is my guess.

What do you call a farker who did not RFTA.

iliveinyoureyelid.

/bows out of the discussion with his foot in his mouth.

ILiveInYourEyelid: What do you call a person who only speaks one language?

an American.

/Culture phoquers, get some.

What I loved about visiting Europe is that it seemed like everyone I met knew at least three different languages (English, Italian, and Spanish where I was staying, anyway). It makes sense in terms of being practical... You can't really have commerce with your neighboring nations if you can't communicate with each other.

I don't know about mandating it, but I think it would sincerely do people in America a lot of good to not only Spanish but even some French.

/Just "obtained" the French-version of Rosetta Stone.
//Yar-har!

ILiveInYourEyelid: What do you call a person who only speaks one language?

an American.

/Culture phoquers, get some.

IF I move somewhere that I need to learn more than one language I will learn it. I will not learn it to make it easier for ILLEGAL mexicans to communicate with me.

/IIT: idiots insisting that speaking more than one language makes you special

A beer toast for all you learners:
Arriba! (above)
Abajo! (below)
Al centro! (to the center)
A dentro! (within)
Peeps will admire your coolness, and chicks will grope you....

"I don't know about mandating it, but I think it would sincerely do people in America a lot of good to not learn only Spanish but even some French."

FTFM

This is why English needs to -- finally -- be made the OFFICIAL language of the United States. Enough catering to illegals already! At what point do we say "enough"? When it's too late?

http://www.usenglish.org/

NUNEZ!!!

Wight Power: ILiveInYourEyelid: What do you call a person who only speaks one language?

an American.

/Culture phoquers, get some.

What I loved about visiting Europe is that it seemed like everyone I met knew at least three different languages (English, Italian, and Spanish where I was staying, anyway). It makes sense in terms of being practical... You can't really have commerce with your neighboring nations if you can't communicate with each other.

I don't know about mandating it, but I think it would sincerely do people in America a lot of good to not only Spanish but even some French.

/Just "obtained" the French-version of Rosetta Stone.
//Yar-har!

French is a dead language. Everybody in France speaks English, but just refuses to admit it to tourists.

The languages high school kids DO need to know:
English (because pretty much everybody speaks it),
Spanish (because the 30% of Americans that don't speak English DO speak Spanish),
Arabic (because you'll probably get drafted),
Mandarin (because they'll be our overlords in another 20 years).

Ay caray, como me lo odio cuando alguien que no habla espanol, crea que esta hablando espanol.

Y tambien, ¿les pusieron en un luz verde asi?

Yo entiendo que no es Fark.mx, pero me da verguenza para leer espanol tan malo...

Wight Power: ILiveInYourEyelid: What do you call a person who only speaks one language?

an American.

/Culture phoquers, get some.

I don't know about mandating it, but I think it would sincerely do people in America a lot of good to not only Spanish but even some French.

/Just "obtained" the French-version of Rosetta Stone.
//Yar-har!


French? Try Chinese. It would be hard to deny the inevitable benefits of learning Mandarin at some point in the near future, especially for the children of America. And, FTR, it's a butt hard language to learn for people who have been brought up speaking English or romance languages. But it's not impossible.

LOGICAL_PSYCHO: IF I move somewhere that I need to learn more than one language I will learn it. I will not learn it to make it easier for ILLEGAL mexicans to communicate with me.

/IIT: idiots insisting that speaking more than one language makes you special

When the company I work for started hiring Mexican immigrants of questionable legality, my boss made me take language classes. Unfortunately for him, he never specified the language...

I came back with German.

/you know who else spoke German?
//yep, Einstein.

My mom couldn't get a job as a high school English teacher in Texas because she doesn't speak Spanish, and she's taught college-level English lit.

jawnjawn 2008-07-26 04:45:54 PM
Wight Power: ILiveInYourEyelid: What do you call a person who only speaks one language?
an American.

No es problemo Spanglish and Chinglish are where it is going. Google can be your friend.

Two DLI grads in the family Mandarin and Arabic plus the kids can handle ASL, a touch of French and Italian and German and tell you to go to hell in several more languages.

Fun fact: Studying a foreign language does wonders for your English skills.

the ha ha guy:



/couldn't resist. Apparently, the real Ha Ha Guy doesn't fancy the ß and the ü
//working on German and Spanish for fun and profit

They have Engrish as a second language in British Columbia. Paid for by the tax payer and not the immigrants family that refuses to encourage Engrish talking, to the kids at home(or pay for the training).
Meanwhile the English speaking kids get a crap education, since the teacher has to talk slower and use very simple Engrish.

/He keeps on saying Engrish?
//I wonder who he's talking about? Hmmm.

come te como

English or GTFO.

If they don't know how to speak English when they get here, or if their wetback parents aren't intelligent enough to teach them to speak it themselves.. maybe they should go back to their own country.

LOGICAL_PSYCHO: ILiveInYourEyelid: What do you call a person who only speaks one language?

an American.

/Culture phoquers, get some.

IF I move somewhere that I need to learn more than one language I will learn it. I will not learn it to make it easier for ILLEGAL mexicans to communicate with me.

/IIT: idiots insisting that speaking more than one language makes you special

And what about the legal ones? You do realize that not all immigrants who speak very little english are illegal, right?

trentrockport: This is why English needs to -- finally -- be made the OFFICIAL language of the United States. Enough catering to illegals already! At what point do we say "enough"? When it's too late?

http://www.usenglish.org/

Exactly, it's absolutely disgusting to see signs, applications, government forms printed in spanish, this isn't Mexico, nor should we aspire to be some third world shiathole like they are.

Judge... Justice?

Pedophiles of the Texas jews who what now?

Is a judge's order all it takes for schools to improve academic achievement of a low performing group? Why didn't they do this 40 years ago? Think of all the time and money wasted.

And while the judge is at it why not order schools to improve academic acheivement for everyone.

Nothing teaches English faster than a good beating by the law enforcement.

Learn the language of your host country

i will only learn another language if i were moving to another country or doing business with another country and needed to learn another language to get by, other than that, these spics can kiss my ass, i'm not learning spanish because they could care less about learning english, i see it first hand everyday, and its not just the illegals that wont learn it, its the group majority, they want to take over this country and turn it into a shiat hole like mexico.

Iron D: LOGICAL_PSYCHO: ILiveInYourEyelid: What do you call a person who only speaks one language?

an American.

/Culture phoquers, get some.

IF I move somewhere that I need to learn more than one language I will learn it. I will not learn it to make it easier for ILLEGAL mexicans to communicate with me.

/IIT: idiots insisting that speaking more than one language makes you special

And what about the legal ones? You do realize that not all immigrants who speak very little english are illegal, right?



I know it is hard to believe, but most people that come here LEGALLY learn the language and embrace the culture.

Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of immigration. Our country is better for it.
It is the illegal part that I have a problem with.

cksewell: Nothing teaches English faster than a good beating by the law enforcement.

Mexicans are just like cue balls, the harder you hit them, the more english you get.

"Mexicans are like billiard balls: the harder you hit them, the more English thay have."

When my German ancestors arrived, they learned English (as it was still and English colony). When my Italian ancestors passed through Ellis Island, the set about learning English. The Scots and Irish already spoke a version of it.

When every wave of immigrants arrived in the United States, they learned English.
Why are we now catering to immigrants who can't be bothered to learn the language?

give me doughnuts:Why are we now catering to immigrants who can't be bothered to learn the language?

Because in TX the illegal immigrant is an extremely valuable commodity and thus must be accommodated.