The United States is an English speaking country.I strongly resent going everywhere with signs in spanish, even asking on the phone.We are being over run by these wetbacks. learn and speak English or leave !

I’ve been learning on the Duolingo app on my phone for about a year. It’s going good, I think I could have a written conversation with someone and spoken if they slow way way down, it’s tough when the words blend together.

I honestly started learning it, thinking of using Spanish for mission work or something church related later in life.

Yes Sir. Back in the day with the influx of immigrants at Ellis Island they came here and adapted, become Americans. That's the way it should be imo. How do y'all think we survived as a Nation this long? It wasn't by division like so many coddle now.

Every citizen should learn English absolutely. Also absolutely nothing wrong with learning a 2nd language, including Spanish.

If you want a useful language for the future you should learn Mandarin.

You might know more than you think. Nevada means snowy. Sierra Nevada refers to Snowy Saw(toothed) Mountains. Montana means mountain. Lot's of Spanish especially in the West.

My wife owned a shop for awhile and she would get in Hispanics on occasion, She could usually manage with school Spanish and a little Italian, but once in a while she had to call her Puerto Rican friend to translate.

What a show, lol, The customers would act like Puerto rican Spanish was an alien tongue from another planet!.

Only other thing I learned, is most Hispanics hate Puerto Ricans, and Cubans hate all other Hispanics, lol

I wish I could speak Spanish. The farm I am on has 6 Mexicans working there, I am the only white guy besides the owners. And the owner that handles the day to day can speak Spanish. I took it in school but struggled with it and after working with these guys for more than 15 years I have picked up a few words but cannot have a conversation. We can get our points across as I know some Spanish words and they know some English but when we have issues google translate is our friend. I have used duolingo to try to learn more but again I find it exceedingly difficult and it fails to teach me things that I can really use at work.

I might add that the first 7 or 8 years that I worked there they did not speak Spanish either, as at that time all of the Mexicans who worked there were of Mayan decent and all of them spoke Mystico (the native Mayan language) as there first language. They only started speaking Spanish when we had a guy start working there who didn't speak Mystico.

Yes Mixtec and Zapotec are two indigenous Mayan based languages that are widely spoken by a lot of the immigrants from Oaxaca state in southern Mexico. One of the nurseries I do business with has a crew that speak Zapotec. They speak Spanish to me, but among themselves just Zapotec with a few Spanish words sprinkled in.

Interestingly, the Spanish spoken by Mexicans has become quite bastardized with english. For example the Spanish word for "pickup" is "camioneta" but most Mexicans now call them a "troca" from our "truck". Same thing for "clutch "and "brakes". El "clotche" and las "brekas".

All languages get that way at some point. Many Spanish words that start with al- are derived from the Moors when they occupied Spain. Ojalá (hope/pray)is the most obvious Moor derived word.

Bingo!! Perdi' mi tiempo aprendiendo buen espanol! Took four years in school and thought I was fluent with proper Spanish. I still have trouble talking to the Latin guys that work for me around the place. They all must have lazy tongue.

Learning Canadian was easy, all I had to do when I worked there was add "Eh" to the end of every sentence. Gotcha!

See, ya don't need no Rosetta Stone, just a crafty mind. ELgetterdoneO.

I can drive cattle and pick fights in Espanol!

Ich sprikt deutch