crazycajun
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We are looking at a new voluntary training course to learn spanish. If selected and you complete the course there would be a pay increase. ($1.25hr) Just wondering if anyone else has ever seen this.
The only Mexican* I need to know is "No hablamos Espanol. Speak English." You'd be surprised how many "non-English speakers" are just being stubborn.
*- Said because calling what most of the illegals we deal with speak Spanish is a lot like calling ebonics Queen's English.
I use Rosetta Stone.
I use Rosetta Stone.
How is that working out for ya? I've been considering using that to learn Spanish too but haven't decided if I want to lay out that much cash for something I know nothing about.
The only Mexican* I need to know is "No hablamos Espanol. Speak English." You'd be surprised how many "non-English speakers" are just being stubborn.
*- Said because calling what most of the illegals we deal with speak Spanish is a lot like calling ebonics Queen's English.
Your being racist. I understand most of the people are Mexican, no they do not speak "mexican". They speak Spanish. That is like me saying you speak American.
I do speak American English. It's a distinct dialect. There's nothing wrong with admitting it. I also speak German, enough Hebrew to get myself into trouble, some French, a few phrases in Arabic and I try to learn a bit of the language for each of the country I go to. I think it's rude to try to force someone to adapt to my linguistic shortcomings and believe that everyone who comes here should learn English. It's not racist, it's just practical.
My point was that if you learn Mexican Spanish and go to Spain you sound to them like a character off of Hee-Haw sounds to us. If you learn Castillian Spanish ("Spanish Spanish" if you will, which sounds a hell of a lot more like Italian than it does the Mexican dialect) and deal with Mexicans (at least outside of academic settings), that look at you like you're an elitist snob. It's a lose-lose situation. I'm a hell of a lot more likely to spend time around Spaniards than I am Mexicans so I see no point in learning the language. I have nothing against Mexicans or anyone else. I do have a problem with people who come to live in this country and don't bother to learn our customs, our language and our standards but get really pissed off when someone doesn't want to bend over backwards to do the reverse. As a minority twice over (Native American and Jewish), I think I'm on pretty firm ground to tell you where to shove your opinion of me being a racist.
I do speak American English. It's a distinct dialect. There's nothing wrong with admitting it. I also speak German, enough Hebrew to get myself into trouble, some French, a few phrases in Arabic and I try to learn a bit of the language for each of the country I go to. I think it's rude to try to force someone to adapt to my linguistic shortcomings and believe that everyone who comes here should learn English. It's not racist, it's just practical.
My point was that if you learn Mexican Spanish and go to Spain you sound to them like a character off of Hee-Haw sounds to us. If you learn Castillian Spanish ("Spanish Spanish" if you will, which sounds a hell of a lot more like Italian than it does the Mexican dialect) and deal with Mexicans (at least outside of academic settings), that look at you like you're an elitist snob. It's a lose-lose situation. I'm a hell of a lot more likely to spend time around Spaniards than I am Mexicans so I see no point in learning the language. I have nothing against Mexicans or anyone else. I do have a problem with people who come to live in this country and don't bother to learn our customs, our language and our standards but get really pissed off when someone doesn't want to bend over backwards to do the reverse. As a minority twice over (Native American and Jewish), I think I'm on pretty firm ground to tell you where to shove your opinion of me being a racist.
for you to conclude that any of your patients are "just being stubborn."
What do you call someone who speaks 3 languages? ...... trilingual
What do you call someone who speaks 2 languages?....... bilingual
What do you call someone who speaks 1 language?........ American
Tolerance should have limits. Otherwise you get walked all over. If being tolerant in your book means surrendering to an influx of illegal immigrants who want to come here, then yeah, I'm intolerant. Then again, I will vociferously defend those same folks if anyone calls them lazy. If you've never hauled sod, bricks or working doing roofing, then you have no right to speak up on that but that's a topic for another day. There's a lot of Mexicans around here and nearly to a person, all of them are among the kindest and most generous folks I've ever had pleasure of dealing with. My only gripe is that a lot of them are hear illegally or that they demand we adapt to their needs. Same would go if we had a bunch of Jews come in and start demanding that we all learn Hebrew, or Poles showing up and demanding Polish language knowledge to make them feel welcome. Even as a polyglot, I don't like the idea of being told what languages I need to know.In my opinion, your post sounded intolerant, rather than racist.