Re: Voters Reject Obama's call for Bilingualism

On Jul 17, 8:09 pm, El Castor <No_...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:45:57 -0700 (PDT), al Guacamole <a...@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:





Olly Mensch wrote:
Rita - I believe that Spanish is the easiest language of all to learn;
that is why it is fairly popular!! The only exception to that would be
"Dutch" - which is the ugliest language on earth, but easy to learn if
you are German-born, yet, who wants to bother; it is hardly an
international necessity.. I feel thatg Spanish is less important
than learning to speak French and ENGLISH - and what is wrong with
learning Italian?? Foreign language study is compulsory over in Europe
- at least it was in my days - .
Yet - on the subject of learning Spanish - here - in order to accomodate
the immigrants' woes (!!), I am of the viewpoint that the immigrants
HAVE to learn English first, and should be allowed no privileges of
citizenship,etc. - unless they speak the English language. That is the
very least this country can demand,and the very least the immigrants
ought to respect and be forced to do. Years and years ago, when my late
brother went to the U.S. - he had only a smattering of
English in his background - from school in Germany. Well, he worked
during the days, and went to,what was called "night-school" to further
improve his English. I feel i is an obligation which ought to be

It depends on what you mean by "easy" Olly. Japanese has a simpler
grammer in my opinion. Also, in my opinion, it's easier to make all of
Japanese sounds for an English speaker while Spanish has a few sounds
that are hard to say. Spanish is "easier" in the sense that the
vocabulary is simpler. Many words are similar to English and
pronounced similarly. The written language is also similar to English.
In Japanese, many words are not exactly equivalent in meaning (eg. it
gets very confusing on how the many verbs for giving and receiving are
used), and forget the written language. You can easily say something
that makes sense to you but is kind of ridiculous in Japanese.
expected of any immigrant, without which he/she ought to NOT be allowed
to be granted any privileges of any kind.
Olly

A long time ago I worked in a bank unit that was asked to train the
Japanese manager of a corresponding unit in Tokyo. Very nice guy, but
his English wasn't too good. Anyhow, he spent about three weeks with
us, and on his last day a group of us took him out to dinner and a few
drinks. Somehow in the conversation it came up that I had a parrot --
a green parrot. After that he was very subdued for awhile, until he
finally turned to me and asked how it could be that my parents were
green. (-8

Great, Jeff. It sounds like that one I heard about Martin Yan, of "Yan
Can Cook". A long time ago he told this women in a cooking class that
he like to serve Chinese food on Millers. She and everyone wondered
what he was talking about until they figured that he meant mirrors.
.

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