Iowa Aviation Weather...en Espanol

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:50:26 -0800, mad8 wrote
(in article .com):

("Bob Noel" wrote)
How many citizens can only read/write Spanish?
Citizens.
Trick question! :-)


the citizenship test doesn't require being able to speak english. you
can take it in your own language if you pay/provide a translator.

just like in court, they will get a translator if a witness or
defendant doesn't speak english.

(all this i know from being surrounded by Russians who just recently
came here and don't speak enough english to be useful)


Besides which, there is no language requirement to be born in this country,
eh? Most Spanish speaking citizens were born here. A lot of their ancestors
were here before Plymouth Rock. That is why I think referring to them and
their language as 'foreign' seems so strange.

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Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor

C J Campbell writes:

Most Spanish speaking citizens were born here.

But most of those also speak English, unless they've led a very bizarre and
isolated existence.

A lot of their ancestors were here before Plymouth Rock.

A lot? How many?

That is why I think referring to them and
their language as 'foreign' seems so strange.

Why is there so much pressure to put things in Spanish, and so little to put
things in aboriginal American languages, such as Navajo?

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