Originally Posted by ACS S3 3.0
FUCK THAT!!!!! My parents moved to this country and didnt know English except for a few words. What did they do? They took English lessons at night school after they went to work during the day. It took some time till they were fluent but they didnt rely on anyone learning their language or anyone helping translate. Anyone can learn you just have to want to and most people dont want to because they can get around it through translators and Spanish speaking phone menus. I dont see a Russian phone menu when I call the state department or cambodian phone menu.
That's exactly what I mean. For all we know, the person maybe be struggling their asses off to learn our language. English is one of the hardest languages to learn, it's soo damn backwards. Calm down.
Originally Posted by TheOtherDave™
Agreed. To expect the transition to be instantaneous is unrealistic.
But OTOH..I feel like it's equally unrealistic to expect our educational, governmental and health-care systems to take on the expense of becoming multi-lingual institutions.
English is still the predominant language in this country; accordingly, there ought to be a concerted effort on the part of those who immigrate to assimilate and learn the English language.
You get what I'm trying to say. A language doesn't come over night. We don't know that preson, they may be going to classes every day/night and struggling to learn English.