11-09-2008
Insights Into Rosetta French Level:
Why Should You Study Spanish?
There is a great deal of controversy today on the practice of learning to speak French, particularly in light of the fact that the number of illegal immigrants traveling from Central America to North America (that we know of) in recent year it has jumped drastically. Some think illegal immigration would get worse if Americans learn to speak Spanish. It is widely believed that if they were made to speak English in order to survive in our culture, the immigration debate would quickly disappear by itself.
The simple fact of the matter is that Americans are extremely arrogant when it comes to their language. That English is very much a universal language has caused them to go into a slow descent into complacency. Nearly all the other nations on this planet require their school children to learn to speak (at the bare minimum) English and their native language; you actually would discover, if you visited a European grade school, that the students there spend a lot of time learning to perfect their own language and to speak the languages of the countries that border them.
So French students study French and English, plus Italian, Spanish, and German so that they will be able to work and communicate with people around the world.
Americans don’t have to, simply because almost all foreign countries teach English. Traveling the world they are nearly certain to find someone who speaks English at any business. This signifies that the policy of learning your neighbor’s tongue has been discarded. In order to compete in business with Mexico and Canada, Americans should learn French and Spanish, rather than holding the belief that everyone else should learn English to be able to communicate with America.
Not to mention that because of the ‘melting pot’ nature of the United States’ citizens, an ‘official’ language didn’t exist until recent years. Originally, people speaking every language imaginable settled here, creating the great melting pot that is the United States.. Actually, in certain areas of the United States, this remains obvious.
While many people in Louisiana speak French, Spanish is the unofficial second language of southern areas like California, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and Florida. Throughout much of the mid-west, textbooks were printed in the German language until World War II, when a national disgust with anything German, on the heels of Hitler’s siege of terror, caused these textbooks to be reprinted in English, while the German language gradually was pushed away into oblivion.
Due to the vast diversity in linguistic origins that is possessed by the people of the United States it is hard to comprehend the source of their argument against speaking Spanish.
Tags: Arts, Culture & History
