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Peter Dohm writes:

A high percentage of the Spanish speaking population is highly educated and
highly litterate. They simply have the same problem in English that I have
in Spanish--they started learning it much too late. It is easy to become
fully proficient (and free of obvious accents) in a new language as a child,
diffecult as an adolescent, and frequently unsuccessfull as an adult.

That's entirely incorrect. I _teach_ English, and anyone can learn it at any
age ... if he wants to. What you describe is the standard excuse for people
who are too lazy to learn English. And highly educated, highly literate
people usually already speak English, as that is part of an education today
throughout the world.

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Tony writes:

Puerto Rico is both largely Spanish speaking, part of the United
States, and literate.

Now will you reconsider your statement, or will this stand as another
example when you were demonstrated to have made an incorrect or
misleading statement?

Puerto Rico does not invalidate my generalization.

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"mx" == mxsmanic writes:

mx The studies I saw supported it very well, and it does make
mx logical sense.

It makes sense to shallow bigots.

Most of the Mexican nationals in the US are poor country people from
northern Mexico, but even they have learned the basics of reading and
writing their native language. Do you even know any of these people?
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Bob Fry writes:

Most of the Mexican nationals in the US are poor country people from
northern Mexico, but even they have learned the basics of reading and
writing their native language.

No, they have not. Most of them are illiterate, in Spanish and in English.

In most countries, in fact, the rural population tends to have low rates of
literacy.

Do you even know any of these people?

A few. It's hard not to when living in certain parts of the U.S. I also know
college-educated Mexicans who can speak real Spanish, and read and write it as
well (and of course they also read, write, and speak English).

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