Re: MultiLingual Vs BiLingual

On 17 Oct 2006 19:01:02 -0700, Samoa271@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

>Tony Cooper wrote:
>> 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.
>
>
>I disagree, even those Hispanicks who can speak English, go out of
>their way not to use it, only using English when absolutely necessary.

Nonsense.  The only "going out of their way" they do is to stay within
the Spanish-speaking community where English is not absolutely
necessary.  The Hispanics who can speak some English, but choose to
use Spanish or pretend that they do not speak English, do so because
they are more comfortable in Spanish.  They don't use Spanish as some
sort of gesture of defiance.




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Tony Cooper
Orlando, FL