Re: MultiLingual Vs BiLingual

On 17 Oct 2006 06:06:20 -0700, Samoa271@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

>RafaMinu wrote:
>> For your info, Spanish is one of the lingua francas of large parts of
>> the USA.
>> A lingua franca is any language widely used beyond the population of
>> its native speakers.
>> The de facto status of lingua franca is usually "awarded" by the m*****
>> to the language of the most influential nation(s) of the time.
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>The only reason USA has Spanish speakers is because Spainsh speakers
>paid their life savings to get the hell out of their countires and paid
>their life savings to be sneaked into the USA, where they then refused
>to speak English, because they are a very proud people and see the
>English langauge as the language of the people who they see as the
>hated historic rivals of their beloved Spaniards.

Your observation is completely different from mine.  I live in a city
where there are a lot of Spanish speakers who have not learned
English.  I attribute their inability to speak English to not having
to bother to since there is a large enough Spanish-speaking community
to allow them to get by without English.  Pride has nothing to do with
it.  These people don't "refuse" to learn English.  They just don't
bother to learn English.




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Tony Cooper
Orlando, FL