Friday, May 24, 2013

Immigrants learning English

Just passed on by a member of Team Verb. We have mountains of evidence that immigrants to this country are doing everything they can to learn English, and here's yet more evidence for the point:


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  1. They want to because they need to.

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  2. The major question is, who still thinks they're not trying to learn English?

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  3. It is certainly being asserted in some media outlets that they aren't and in public outreach talks, I still hear the point occasionally.

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  4. Typically now it's being phrased somewhat less directly, like stuff about immigrants 'expecting to be served in their own languages'. Here's a mild example:

    http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/02/01/english-bills-unfair-immigrants/

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