Learn the Language if you live here

of course you have to learn to speak the language of the country you are going to. specially when you are living in it. some just have fun for travelling so they don't want to learn the language of the countries they are going to. but if you are living in there or working there, you have to learn their language no matter what. cause they might even say bad things to you and you just keep on smiling, how's that? it's not right just being in a place where you don't have idea what other people are saying to you.

Hi missybear, I know some countries where knowing the national language even by the immigrants is a must. I am not sure if this could be termed an imposition or not letting outsiders exercise their language. By and large it is good to have knowledge of as many as language as you can.

Yup! you right, friend. But we Filipino, are good in speaking English, and not a problem for us when we are in the United State. Some language of spanish also influence us because Philippines, is once a colonize of Spain...

Well i also lived in the Gulf also for quite some time. There we had to learn Arabic there which was a compulsory language in schooling over there. I had failed many times in that subject so i had opted for French as another side subject which seemed kinda better compared to Arabic. It's good to learn a new language at a place. But it's better if we learn the language instead of when we learn it at school or at some other place. It's better if we learn by speaking rather than listening to what someone else had said. Cheers!

Well I live in Ecuador, a country were we speak Spanish, but I also speak English. I hope to travel in the future, when I'm older age, maybe the U.S. or Europe. If I go to Europe, I'd go to Germany, so I'd have to learn the language, that's obvious, I don't want to be like a stranger there. I just want to live like any other German would. So, I would obviously learn the language when I go to a foreign country.

Yes,I think so,a person go to another country and should learn the native language,only in that case can they communicate with others and make friends with others,otherwise,you will be lonely all the time.

I agree. You should defiantly know the language of where you are living. There really is no reason not to know what the common language is. I also think that you should know how to write in a way that others can actually understand what you are writing. I can understand it better than when I try to call a company that I have service with and the person on the phone has very heavy accent and I can barely tell what they are talking about and have to keep asking them what they said.

Hi Missybear I totally agree with you and I wish everyone would take note of that It seems though that many People move to a different Country and expect the People there to learn the Language that they talk, as they can not be bothered to learn the Countries Language

To be fair, the U.S. doesn't have a national language. And on the basis of freedom, no one should be forced to learn a language or snubbed because they don't know it, no matter how prevalent the language. That said, it would probably be more prudent to learn at least the basics of a language spoken by the majority. It would also be prudent to learn the basics of Spanish if you live near the border of Mexico, or the basics of French if you live near the border of Canada.

Oh no kidding. Wo in Deutschland? :d Yeah, if you're going to live somewhere, make an effort to learn the language. It's respectful, it's practical, it's common sense, it's self preservation. Why people don't do that is totally beyond me.

I live in a town with about 6,000 people, many of whom are here, undocumented, or have refugee status after coming from Africa. For 60 miles, there are only two towns with populations reaching more than 3,000 people. Our immigrant population is high enough that now it's difficult to get a job if you cannot speak Spanish, French, or BOTH languages. My daughter has been enrolled in school alongside one child for the last two years, who can barely speak English. Why? He and less than 10 other students speak a language that is native in their home country, but few people here speak. Is it really fair to take from the budget the funding that could be paying for teacher's assistants or other staff to help the majority population to satisfy the needs of those 10? Is it really fair to let those 10 fall hopelessly behind because of language barriers that could begin to be broken in the way that we would teach a young child to speak?

I would certainly want to learn the language if I moved to a different country. In fact, not knowing the language might prohibit me from moving. I can't imagine living somewhere and not being able to communicate with anyone. In the States a lot of Spanish is spoken but, they should also be able to speak English.

LOL LOL MAN! That is TOO FUNNY!!lol And then they look at U "STUPID" when U don't understand the little bit of English that they DO KNOW!

hi, i could learn language when i in that place, like here in my country, i grew up in the city, but i still know how to speak my province's dialect, because i always been there, so like the other country too.if i could stay for a month.

I agree with you. Fortunately I pick up languages quickly. I'm not sure if it's because of the advantage I had since I was raised outside my country. We spoke my mother tongue at home and English at school. But we also had to learn the local language.When we moved back to India (in my early 20s), I married and stayed in a different state than my own. I learnt the language of that state too (though I can't read or write the language). Since this is a cosmopolitan city, we can get by with Hindi and English. But yet, I find it weird when people at shops, serving customers cannot speak the local language. We can speak in English or Hindi...but what about the local people of the previous generation? They find it difficult to communicate with such people in their own language in their own place! Isn't that funny when one needs to learn a language other than the local language?

I actually have to agree with you there. I mean, you don't have to be a pro or anything but you should at least have a passable grasp of the main language of the land you are living in. It would make things a lot easier for everyone. I've actually been in situations where I've had to deal with non-English speaking people and it is really hard and an uncomfortable situation to be in. We practically had to communicate by pointing and waving our hands around like crazy people.

Hey missy! That is a problem that alot of us have with those that come here, especially from Mexico and other countries and don't even want to try to learn the language! Spanish has now become a "primary" language in the US so everything is always in English and Spanish which makes it easier for the people to not learn English. Why should they when it is made so easy for them not to have to?

I do think it is important to learn the native language of a country that you decide to live in. It can make things easier for everyone involved including the immigrants. I have actually taken up Spanish as a second language because of the language barrier between me and some coworkers that I have to be able to communicate with. They try to learn English as well..sometimes there is a mixture of the two languages because we are at a loss for a certain word. I think that might even fall under a new language altogether. It can be very frustrating and it should be required if I am going to live in Japan that I can communicate at least on a basic level. I would actually want to.

As for me an Asian,its our medium of teaching in almost all school in our country. A prerequisite too to learn how to write and speak English.So even young children at least know a little English or at least they understand even they have not gone proper schooling.Before Spanish subjects was included too in the curriculum but later they have abolished it.Well its really a big plus if one knows how to speak and correspond in English.Happy mylotting

Definately,I would learn,it is convenient to live in that country