Do you think America should consider Spanish as a language on level with English?
February 25, 2010 by
Filed under spanish language
For this question, consider English as an official American Language.
1) Do you think Spanish should be consider an offical American Language?
2) Do you think doing so would cause American to lose some of what we call America?
3) Would you support this promotion of the Spanish Language?
1. No
2. America would change, but not necessarily lose anything.
3. No. Not to this degree.
no it shouldn´t be official since it´s not used in any organization nor school, so it´s more like a dialect status, Napolitan isn´t official in Italy is it?? I do think Spanish should be promoted cause it´s good to speak another language and americans hardly speak anything other than English, also America is a continent.
No, I would not support this.
If you are living in a country you are obligated to learn and use its language.
Our language is English.
If I go to Japan and want to speak Hebrew should that become an official language of Japan?
I think it would effect our culture. The fact is, all the other nationalities that came to America over the two hundred plus years learned English. Only hispanic people seem to demand concessions be made to learn their language.
The United States (not ‘America’, which is an already predominantly Spanish-speaking continent) does not have an official language, but if it got into the business of declaring official languages, then yes, I think Spanish should also be an official language together with English, considering that nearly 50 million people speak it in the US.
Remember that after the Mexican-American war almost half of the territory of Mexico passed to the US. People then did not “go over” the border. It was the border that went over the people.
it´s spoken by 50 million people so YES it should be official, Italian is official in Switzerland being spoken by only 10 % of its population.