Luque wrote:
In 100 years, English will not be needed in the U.S. Get used to it mi amigos. Learn our language if you hope to stay here and survive.
Bullshit. Immigrant tongues almost never survive into the third generation. Try to find some third generation Spanish speakers. They're few and far between.
Exactamente. Esos estadounidenses tienen tanto miedo de hablar otra lengua, y ¿por qué?
Bagger wrote:
Luque wrote:Get used to it mi amigos. Learn our language if you hope to stay here and survive.
Pues, me parece que también necesitas aprender mejor tu propia lengua, o por lo menos las reglas de concordancia. Tu adjetivo posesivo, mi, no concuerda con el sustantivo, amigos. O es que en cien años tampoco habrá policía de gramática?
For the six or seven non-Spanish speakers on this board: The point of Bagger's post is that if you're going to say "amigos" (plural) you have to say "mis" (plural) as well--not "mi" (singular).
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I was on the subway one day and two or three people were jabbering away (loudly) in whatever language it was--Russian, Chinese, Swahili, whatever.
One of the passengers finally got pissed off and said, "Hey! You're in America now! Speak Spanish!"
a miler wrote:
The Irish wouldn't like you one bit.
Anyway, Ireland's part of the UK.[/quote][/quote]
Ireland was one of the two kingdom components of the United Kingdom from 1801 till 1921.
Then it left and the UK was no more, but the style was retained (partly by holding onto a few counties in the northeast, although these were never a kingdom nor even a country). It's like how Egypt kept calling itself the United Arab Republic after Syria quit the UAR.
Luque wrote:
In 100 years, English will not be needed in the U.S. Get used to it mi amigos. Learn our language if you hope to stay here and survive.
Get out and go home while you are still in one piece.
[/quote]eyelets of langerhans wrote:
a miler wrote:The Irish wouldn't like you one bit.
Anyway, Ireland's part of the UK.
Ireland was one of the two kingdom components of the United Kingdom from 1801 till 1921.
Then it left and the UK was no more, but the style was retained (partly by holding onto a few counties in the northeast, although these were never a kingdom nor even a country). It's like how Egypt kept calling itself the United Arab Republic after Syria quit the UAR.[/quote]
It was the United Kingdom of Great Britain from 1707 following union with the kingdom of Scotland and later became the UK of GB & Ireland in 1801 and finally the UK of GB & NI in 1927. The apellation UK is still appropriate since it consists of two kingdoms, a principality and a province.
question here....... wrote:
Does anyone know this?
Outside of the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, what are the 3 other countries who speak English as a NATIVE language?
South AFrica?
Assuming you are talking about English as a first language, no AFrican country has English as its first language. None!!!!!!!!!!
Kenya has no waiver for TOEFL.
I don't know about the rest.