Why do we have to learn Spanish when we are in America?

We should not have to learn Spanish if we live in the US but it can be helpful. Try living in South Florida if you do not understand or speak Spanish. You'd never belive that you are in the US

My home boy works at McDonalds. They hire illegals like you wouldn't believe. The way they do it, is to send the illegals down to this lawyer who fills out some kind of form for them. He on purpose does not fill the form out all the way before he submits it to the government. This alone buys the illegal a lot of time before the form gets kicked back. When they get the form back, they instantly have more time before the form has to be resubmitted. When they do finally resubmitt the form, the illegal has even more time to be an illegal. If something goes wrong, they just pull another name out of the sky and slap it on that illegal. Pedro could have been Carlos yesterday. Get it??? As far as us Americans learning Spanish..... Piss on them!!! let THEM learn English the same as all other imagrents proudly did.

Actually I think Spanish will be a growing language throughout the world.. far more so than French or German etc.. so why not? Another language is always to your advantage.

Well i love spanish and it was a great 4 year experience for me in school, you not only get to speak to people who came here who are hispanics, you can go outside of this country and benefit if you visit a spanish speaking country.

I totally agree. Give it 5 years and nothing will be written in English anymore. You won't be a business or go into a business and actually talk to anyone who speaks English. It is very disrepectful to come into our country and expect us to 'cater' to them. but they don't respect US or it's citizens anyway. but they sure expect our handouts without even a TY..Other countries come here and speak English and don't expect us to learn Chinese or French but they r special I guess. The public schools here Have to take Spanish now to graduate. with all the things our kids NEED to learn to survive (computers, math, technology, etc) and spanish seems to be more important than all of those things. I took spanish in school. I couldn't get it. i never would have graduated. How do you say Big mac in spanish.?

Yeah like the previous poster said no one is forcing you. But many people prefer to speak their language. Both my parents know how to speak english but they prefer to speak spanish(since they are worried bout their accent). Besides isn't it nice to say you speak other languages?

That's the same question I asked my French tutor : ) when I was in high school. The answer was second languages bolster your IQ. She was right.

Nobody is making us learn anything, speaking another language is a choice and I have never met an immigrant legal or illegal that expected me to learn their language. And nobody forces anyone to print things in other languages that is also a choice. Many printed publications and instructions are in Spanish, French, English and Chinese. Pointing out only Spanish reveals an underlying hostility for Spanish speaking legal citizens which amount to over 45 million in the US alone.

Because there are a lot of spanish speaking people in america. And why should they have to learn english? It is the hardest language to learn, and english speaking people make the native indians learn english because they were to lazy to learn what the natives spoke, it the same thing. If you dont want to learn spanish then dont but dont make someone else learn english because you dont want to. And dont start with the whole illegal alien thing because your family didnt start here and they didnt take the test so your here illegally too