I speak french fluently and it's pretty much a waste. My daughter is learning spanish in pre k and loves it. Spanish is easily the most important second language an american can learn
Kind of sad that the French language is going to be obsolete in the U.S. As far as Spanish, I took 2 years in high school, and I learned more Spanish working as a bartender and food server in Texas.
French is almost completely useless. I use Spanish all the time, French I have used maybe thrice in my life, each time with a Haitian or North African cabbie while drunk.
why would anyone ever need to learn the pledge of allegiance in spanish? cielito lindo should never be sang in english either.
why would anyone ever want to learn anything? why read a book or even a newspaper? why not just lay facedown in the street and hope a passerby stuffs an occasional cheeto in our talkhole? learning has value. people who are intellectually curious are articulate and interesting and superior. cajun sensation learned the pledge en espanol and he hasnt turned into a beaner.
Your educational activisim is impressive but it is beside the point. Learning spanish is valuable and it gives those who learn it an advantage later in life. So we agree on those things and now we can move past your platitude. So what are the implications of learing the Pledge in spanish? Is it simply to recite something in a different language? Is it to impress people who are intellectually curious and articulate and interesting and superior? It is a very specific and American thing, like The Constitiution. If Hispanic Americans who can't speak english say the pledge in spanish that is one thing, at least until they learn it in english. Why would anyone want or need to say it that way if they are english speaking Americans?
there are none. do you aspire to know the tiniest possible amount of information about the world? do you take pride in anti-intellectualism? you are implying that it is of no value to understand other languages. the opposite is true. again, i ask if you like my plan to lie facedown in silence and hope to never learn anything. do you not understand that knowledge and understanding have value? have you ever read a book that made you happy? spoken to a person in their native language? its rewarding as fuck. education is its own reward. people who are not bumbling morons aspire to understand the world around them. so is spanish, which has been spoken on this continent for longer than this country has existed. english is the language of our colonial masters, why are you paying tribute to those guy? they murdered us when we were desperate for independence? why dont you learn german or dutch and speak that? everything doesnt have to be politicized. it isnt a tribute to the queen of england when we speak english. it isnt a nod to the filthy mexicans when we learn spanish. why would anyone want or need to learn anything? the real problem is that the kids are learning the pledge at all, which is nationalistic bullshit.
Nice. Is that your opening line in your conversations. First tell someone they are a facist and then at the end of the night tell them you couldn't give a rats ass about what you were talking about anyway. And I know you couldn't give a rats ass about the Pledge of Allegiance. I thought we agreed that being multilingual was good for a person. Let's re-agree on this so we can get past your lack of understanding. This is filled with so many pejorative questions. Ummm yes,yes,yes... and I think you think you know it all so you are not so much understanding the world around you but instead telling it how to live. But hey, there is that anti-intellecutalism I'm dealing with. This is where I must apologize. I did not know you were african american. I thought with the big white head and the banal diatribes you were as white as me. I like Mexicans and I like spanish but why are we saying the pledge in spanish? That was the question. I guess if Mexico came up with this indepedence thing first some american-mexican kid would be reciting it it english right now. so I get this trite bullshit of yours on intellectualism about something you would rather condem?
What does it matter. Like Martin said, Spanish was used on North American lands long before English. What I'm curious about is if you feel the same about French. I know what you will say is that it shouldn't be spoken in French either, because I feel you would know what that means if don't have a problem with it in French.
