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- ABC News’ Stephanie Ramos speaks with dual-language expert Dr. Jose Medina about destigmatizing Spanglish and the challenges some Latino children face for being unable to speak fluent Spanish.
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im sure other minority groups feel same way with their language and culture too
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Yeah, no one speaks Anglo-Saxon anymore...
Latinos/Hispanics literally include many races. Being the majority… watch the video
I'm part of such minority and I don't give two @#$%^ about what other non-Spanish speakers think. Hablo espanol con amigos y familia y si alguien tiene algun problema con ello puede venir y decirmelo a la cara, y lo arreglamos rapido.
I think it's rotten deep in our own insecurities and fears. Stay strong
@@marcelphilliphe5259 So much passion towards the language of the conquistadors. Sigh.
My kids speak fluent, almost perfect Spanish (live in the US) but I always speak Spanish to them even though I speak fluent English. I think as parents is our decision to pass on that legacy to our children. Many of my Hispanic and Asians friends decided not to do it,, which I find truly sad. It’s like cutting out a part of who our children are.
They are very people Hispanic parents like that; tiny.
Its very sad? Ya it’s sad that this white European language was forced onto our native ancestors after raping and killing them. I doubt you speak the language of our Aztec and Myan ancestors.
I should have been more clear and less ambiguous.
They are not many Hispanic children who know friends, neighbors, or other relatives whom are 18 and older and speak English well, let alone parents. Thus their linguistic isolation is well known and why they are synonymous with ESL. I mean, without social media and TH-cam commentary, I would have not believed it. So that's news to me.
Spanish is the only major passed down as a first language from generation to generation in the United States. There is virtually know one that is a native speaker of English or learned Spanish later in life. Without external stimuli to check the influence of Spanish, Spanish is giving English a run for its money. I mean, more than 57 millions Spanish speakers can't be wrong.
This really bites.
I responded to a comment above and the person deleted the original comment. So it looks like I am responding to myself.
I know how to speak Spanish but I was always made fun of for being white and because of that everyone always says “oh este wey is a no sabo kid” and “you speak Spanish funny” so yeah I just decided to not speak it but because of that I lost ways to say things in Spanish like my Spanish is fucked
being multilingual also provides a lot of job opportunities and higher wages 😍
Exactly! That's one of the reasons I got a great job right after I graduated college.
Not in this economy
Biden will hook you up with a translater job with the Mexican cartel if you watch his political back.
I don't support that. This is the USA , speak English. I am Latino , and I not going to learn Chinese if they become the majority in the USA.
@@godzillamegatron3590 it’s weird that people are pushing others to learn a language that is not dominate or the official language of this country.
I partially grew to dislike my hispanic community because of the hard time they always gave me just for not knowing spanish. Like why does it make you so mad that I dont know spanish? Dont worry about me. Live your life.
Plus it's not even their native language. Spanish is the European language. No Mexican is accepted in Spain
I live in Canada. I I learned English and French. I already spoke Spanish. I made an effort to learn these languages. You’re a full on adult, have some dignity and respect for the US’s de facto second Language Spanish and learn some. Unlike other languages, Spanish was established European language in what is now the US (from Florida to California) long before the English arrived in the US. Stop coming up with excuses you monolingual hillbilly.
It’s more common with the Mexicans than other Latinos
@@randomdoggo1928 nope
@@zoren1900 I noticed that most no sabos have parents from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador
If this guy is using “LatinX” then he needs to stick to English Latinos don’t use that derogatory term
I work for a preschool and this is an ongoing issue with parents. I have parents who speak Arabic and Spanish and they tell me that their child is refusing to speak their home language. And the parents barely speak any English. So what happens is there’s a disconnect between the parent and the child and it’s super sad. I was born here to Latinos parents and I learned to speak Spanish. In college I perfected my Spanish. I want my children to learn Spanish but I know how hard it is going to be. I remember the shame that felt because my mom did not speak any English. And I remember I spent a year as a teenager barely talking to my mom because I didn’t want to speak Spanish. I got over it and I love my Latino roots and I don’t want my future children to feel the same way but I know how I felt as a child and I’m afraid that they’re going to follow in my footsteps and not like any Spanish
@@RiseAwakenedOne you guys go to latin america and Spain, not knowing Spanish and the locals won't force English speaking foreigners to learn the Spanish language but you guys do to us minorities and plus English speaking foreigners segregate themselves from the locals so how comes we can't do it in North America?
Totally agree
@@RiseAwakenedOne you say that because you have no skills to speak other languages
You can try sending them to Spanish courses or camps for children. They are pretty fun.
Why doesn’t your mom speak English? Just curious..
Most Hispanics born in the 90s weren't taught, so it dies with us. It was our lazy parents' responsibility to teach us Spanish. It kind of sucks because we're stuck with the Chicano accent regardless of if we speak it or not.
nah
I agree, and it's very sad knowing how many parents never gave the effort to teach their kids Spanish properly. It is not hard to do so, especially if it becomes a benefit for their future
@@SuperRip7 si guey
i don’t think most latinos in my generation (gen-z) speak with the chicano accent
I don’t have a chicano accent and i can speak Spanish pretty good but not 100% perfectly, I learned from listening to my parents speak it but I was never really taught it either
If you want to destroy someone culture , make them forgot their language first , everything else is gone after . its really sad
Calm down the Spanish language isn’t dying out lol
That's called assimilation, Hispanics become Americans and that's good.
Plus it was never their culture to begin with. If you have a strong connection to Spanish culture like I have you will know its literally impossible to dissolve the Spanish roots. They literally spoon feed you Don Quijote and other Spanish customs if you are Cuban. Walk tthrough Hialeah and you will see statues of Columbus, Miguel de Cervantes, etc. These people were barely Spanish to begin with.
Kion la hispanoj faris al la indiĝenaj amerikanoj.
Culture isn’t inherently worth preserving.
I have met folks who are "yo no sabo" but they don't want to learn spanish. And its sad.
No it is not.
@@taylormakes2207 yes it is, keep la cultura y la lengua viva. No dejan que el gringo gane
@@razacosmicapilled Relax dude there's no grand plan to erase the culture or language, this happens to all immigrant communities around the world.
@@razacosmicapilled amen
@@frenchcat2910 cringe
I was raised in Texas in the 80s. My mother who was an American citizen, but only spoke Spanish, encouraged me to only speak English, which she could understand perfectly. I learned Enligsh at 4yo and was punished at school up until 1989 for speaking Spanish in school, so I learned English fluently and lost Spanish for many years. I would recover it in my teens and then later perfect it in college and finally in my deportation to Mexico. Now, I speak both English and Spanish, and other languages, fluently and in their own right, but when I speak casually to friends and family, depending on their ability to understand either language, I code switch between the two or at times just use Border Pocho.
Wait did I read you were deported?!? If I read that correctly that's bull SH*T! You've lived im the US growing up, you're a US citizen!
Arent kids of american citizens? Citizens too?
@@aprilpinkelton4385 this is correct, i was one of the birthright citizens deported under Obama...it happened while i was a permanent resident. The details of my immigration story still anger me, but I'm a nutshell: the government wasn't forthcoming with my mother when she reported my birth, and they only gave me residency and not my birthright. Later, they would use my time studying abroad as a way to say that I had violated my residency and became deportable. I was removed from my home with the two suitcases I had taken to visit my family and sent to the border to live in a country I hadn't lived in for over 20 years.
@@LoboMendez1 😲
My family speaks and writes Spanish and English very well but did not teach us the Spanish. Only the English. I don’t feel bad about it. I understand but I don’t speak. I’m 🇨🇺🇵🇷 but I was born in NYC and while we don’t have an official language English is the dominate one. I don’t let anyone make me feel bad because I don’t speak. I already understand most of it and if I want to learn I’ll do it on my own not because someone tries to humiliate me about it or tell me I should.
Knowing Spanish and English is like knowing two worlds, and you just doubled your choices in life 👌
The native-English speakers never got an opportunity to learn a second language. They paid the price.
Twice the problems too.
@@SuperRip7why do Spanish speakers come to English speaking nations 🤔 maybe because Spanish ain't so good
@@AlexanderWaight lol. What? Spanish was the first European language in what is now the USA. Waaayyyy before English 🙂 This is coming from someone who's first language is English. If you were smart you would know there is NO OFFICIAL LANGUAGE in the USA 🙃 Learn Spanish
@@zoren1900 SPANISH SPEAKING COUNTRIES LOOK ST LATIN AMERICA
I get sh$& all the time from 1st generation Latinos and family members because though I speak intermediate Spanish it is not as good as my English. My response to them is I was born and raised here and I make my living using English so as long as I live in the states my Spanish doesn't need to be perfect. When I hangout with my cousins and we are speaking English in public I get looks from other Latin people. I am like wtf yes we are Hispanic but WE ARE FROM HERE! We were all born and raised in either CT or NYC not Guatemala lol.
why are they angry that you're speaking in your mother tonge? The US is an anglophone country, people speak english and that's it, spanish is just a bonus, but it is not needed
People make fun of those who can't speak English. It's just natural, it's okay if your p*ssy hurts. I'll hold your hand while you cope.
Because these Hispanics are ignorant leeches. They want to steal this country with illegal immigration, dissolve American culture, and claim it as their own
That’s not too bad. At least you speak intermediate level.
Don't be a no sabo kid
this just proves once again that some people are cruel. I was hated when my English was poor, you would hear it every where "don't speak Spanish" this is America, English only!" now is reverse. esta gente esta loca, Padres, nunca cambies tu cultura para otros.
You just can't please anyone, can you? You speak Spanish, people complain. You don't speak Spanish, people complain. People should make up their minds.
@@linkskywalker5417people are stupid unfortunately
Dont call us Latinos People want to put us all in one box but we are all different every country with its unique culture.
I personally think that learning the language allows one to go deeper into the community. I learned Spanish at the age of 12 and I have been able to be a strong advocate for my community, more now as an ESL teacher where I can help more Latinos speak English by knowing their language.
yall dont know who you are. haha finding your culture by learning the language of the people that ra.ped your ancestors and made you half breed watered down mestizos
Beautiful children and families 🦋✨💖
My parents speak fluent Spanish and Portuguese..l but I don’t speak either language. So I decided to learn a second language and ended up learning German. lol.
😂😂😂
German is fucking useless now. All Germans speak English, what's the point? not even that many german speakers
Germany is useless. It's only spoken in 6 countries while Spanish is the official language in 21 countries and there are a lot of Hispanics in the States
So you speak German to your parents 🤔 why don't you learn Spanish is the most beautiful language there is
Portuguese ? wow.
My dad decided to not teach us spanish because he felt like we would face less discrimination in the united states, he wasn't totally wrong, when I was in elementary school my teacher pulled me aside and said "This is America we speak english"
My grandparents didn't teach my dad for this reason. There needs to be protective laws for this that would prohibit teachers from doing this.
I think we need to work better in the US to remove the stigma of speaking a foreign languagle in public as somehow wrong or frowned upon... I say this as a white American that grew up in the South. I also am a fluent spanish speaker and I have lived abroad for several years. I love to see the changes in my State now that Spanish is finally becoming more accepted in public and in the work place as well as schools. I think we need to show people the opportunities that you'll have in life being a bilingual. I think that's the biggest cultural hurdle. Aside from that it is very difficult to learn a second language and not everyone can do it easily. Everyone is capable though given the right amount of effort.
What stigma? English is a foreign language in America. It's not indigenous or native and it's the most spoken, for a few more years anyway then it'll drop off and be used as much as Zulu.
@wkyt9324 no English will always be the primary
I appreciate this movement a lot. I grew up being taught I wasn’t Latina bc I didn’t speak Spanish fluently. Discipline teaches you typically nothing, but negative teachings, if that.
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It also depends where you're from in Texas and new mexico alot of people speak Spanish it's the culture,even some white people speak Spanish when I went to Michigan i was the only Mexican who spoke spanish it's the opposite there it's all pochos.
I can’t tell you how ashamed I was of myself for not knowing Spanish.. I felt like less of a person in some way
My mom didnt learn fluent spanish til she was in her mid 20s. She told me she learned it by watching the Spanish news because they speak it correctly. Its not slang Spanish. Now me i know little speaking spanish, but i understand it more than i speak it. Lol
I know what you mean I felt the same way through out my life. Even though my parents have an idea they also didn't know well either. Its sad our ancestors had to 'fit in' because of racism. But now alot of us descendants are being effected by not feeling we're enough for our culture. I'm 23 in college and I am finally learning Spanish for my self. And even if I or other Latinos ended up never learning it doesn't make us any less part of our ethnicity.💚
(I also just wanna say in middle school I was also a huge fan of your art Zamiiz. Still am it's good to see your presence again!)
If you get to save money move for 6 months to a place like Antigua Guatemala. You’ll be fluent in Spanish and will have lots of fun.
I have a couple of caucasian friends who did it and love it.
Nah don't feel bad you still got the Hispanic culture either way.
@zamiiz nothing wrong with that,many latinos speak many romance/indigenous languages
Spanish speaker to me, a Latino man: You're mexican, aren't you? Why don't you speak spanish???
Me: Oh, my parents died when I was only two so I was rasied by a white family. You want to know more about some tragic things I lived through?
Them: 😐
Them: porque no sabes español?!???
Me serving at an American Restaurant: porque no háblame en Inglés😂🙄🧐
My parents are from France and I dont speak a lick of it. But I know how to order Mexican food.
hmm.
@@SuperRip7 Chicken tacos homie
It's not their culture. They are American. American is their culture. It is their former family language. If your grandparents came from Germany and you know zero German, is German actually your culture?
So my parents never taught me and I basically knew nothing when I was younger, then I grew up and starting learning because of the intense guilt I had. I’m still not fluent in the slightest but people judge me way more on my mistakes now even they have no idea how far i’ve come…
I wasn't taught spanish and i barely Understand it its so hard not Knowing it because thier are People at School who look down on you for not speaking it Fluently and i feel left out i wish I was taught it as a kid and not on my own
As a Nuyorican I totally understand this. People judge all the time about know Spanish or not knowing Spanish
You can never avoid it.
@@bull419, and many fear that other Americans will frown upon it.
@@valuecalc Or that illegal immigrant latinos will look down on latinos who do not speak Spanish. Either way, they can't please anyone.
I always spoke Spanish at home to my Puerto Rican parents. When I would visit Puerto Rico the locals would say they knew I was from the mainland because of the way I spoke Spanish. I guess I spoke Nuyorican Spanish.
Thank you for this. It made me cry.
My first language was Spanish I switched to English at 6 years old, I’m now 27 and get bullied at work everyday over this they think I’m a white guy that’s a wannabe
How about appreciating both languages? Other countries support "home language" and see it as a benefit to the person and society.
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Great idea 💡 It’s really up to the individual families, actually. It is ok to have more then one culture in a family in my own opinion. How fun life can be.
Having a society that uses two languages is a major weakness. Creates "us vs them" mentalities and hinders cohesion and understanding.
We need thousands of free English language lessons all across the country for the millions of illegal immigrants.
@@bidenhasdementia8657 stupid 😂😂
@@bidenhasdementia8657 You do have a point about that. Belgium has two official languages, French and Dutch, the Waloons speaking the former and Stupid Sexy Flanders (see what I did there?) speaking the latter. And despite both of them living in the same country where the EU is headquartered, they've hated each other for decades, long before the European migrant crisis started.
Also, the whites in South Africa didn't get along even during apartheid because of having two official languages. This of course, led to both the Afrikaans speaking whites and English speaking whites to resent each other.
Cameroon has a civil war going on because of both English and French being official languages, last I checked.
So no, having multiple official languages does not help unite a country. In fact, it can divide it. And latino parents in America pressuring their children to learn Spanish just to talk to family members is a bad thing, just like British parents in Spain doing the same thing to their children. If you decide to live in another country, you must learn the language of the land. Yes, some businesses in America do have services in Spanish, but most do not. And those that do have traditionally served the area around, at most, a 100 mile radius of the US-Mexico border, not Chicago.
my family did not want me to learn Spanish out of fear of discrimination as a kid but my curiosity made me learn it anyway. im fluent in spanish & english (french is my third language that is my weakest). those around me who did not become fluent in spanish did it mainly out of shame. they would make fun of the esl students & anyone who spoke fluent spanish here in L.A. in the 80s & 90s. being mexican in america is not as "cool" as being african american or white american hence white wash & now black washed mexicans who cant speak spanish. there are now mexican americans who speak with a blackcent/ebonics & were not raised by african americans but can barely speak spanish. in most cases its a matter of will, influence & voluntary ignorance. i have met white & black americans who learned spanish by merely working with mexicans, its a weak excuse not to learn it.
I was barely spoken to in spanish 10-20% being raised by my grandmother, but english is my main language. I can understand it more than i can speak it, i know that sounds weird 🤷♀️ my spanish skills are a 4.5 outta 10 scale rating, mostly can understand the basic words and profanity etc.
Pure laziness
Theres no excuse, if you dont take time to connect to your culture then its just pure LAZINESS
It seems like it’s only looked down on for Mexican Americans to not speaking Spanish. Most Puerto Rican Americans I know don’t know Spanish, it’s just normal. I live close to one of the biggest Puerto Rican neighborhoods in the country and a good majority of people there don’t speak Spanish.
How bout understanding this. Like my mother for example. She speaks eloquently to the point she can be a politician who speaks Spanish but neither me and my sibling do not speak Spanish because she was too busy busting her ass working to take the time to teach us so enforced English math and other sciences
Learning to read and write at an advanced level will help you immensely in vocabulary, spelling, grammar and sentence structure. Spanish is easy to pronounce, and especially so if you grew up in a Spanish speaking home because the accent and rhythm are already in your head. I learned to read and write French quite well, but I can not speak it naturally or understand it spoken by a native speaker. But if i had grown up hearing it in the home just casually I would be most likely be vocally fluent as well as fluent on paper. It's two different things knowing what to say and then knowing how to get it out of your mouth.
This is such an american thing
There are always two sides to every story. One is the kids that were encouraged to only speak English, but there are also thousands upon thousands of kids that simply have no interest in speaking Spanish. I live here in Orlando Florida, where the Puerto Rican community is the biggest minority group. I know tons of people who speak only Spanish to their kids, but their kids will not talk back to them in Spanish. I do think that in journalism it’s always good to show both sides of the story that way the parents and/or the “system” are not always held as being “the bad guys”. All in all, this was a very good report about the Latino community and the beauty of speaking two different languages here in the USA.
Yep, it definitely has little to do with the laws she mentioned. I don't think the report was accurate on the history.
Those laws were put in place for a bunch of languages, to eradicate Native languages (Navajo, Lakota, Ojibwe, Cherokee, etc), French in Louisiana and New England, Spanish in New Mexico/Texas, and the many immigrant languages being spoken by the masses of Italians, Irish, Germans, Eastern Europeans, Scandinavians, Jews, Japanese and other immigrants who were living in the US by the 1910s.
This is why by the 1950s and 1960s, when the grandchildren of those immigrants were being born, during peak years of "Americana," the US had largely homogenized it's culture, which the suburbs and mass media helped to do as well. Most Americans only spoke English well by the 1960s, since the immigrant languages from Europe, native languages and the American dialects of French and Spanish, were pretty much dying out.
But the thing is, the majority of Spanish-speakers living in the US today moved here after the 1960s. There were only small pockets of Puerto Ricans and Mexicans living on the East and West Coasts who were affected by the language policies. Most of us are the result of 1970s-2000s migration. I'm Guatemalan and salvadoran through my parents, and they moved here in 1990.
I mean, how sad is it that 90% of a child’s daily speaking is in school and not a higher rate from home and outside of school. Sure it’s not the parents fault if their kids don’t want to speak it, but how little must you speak to them if they don’t find a use for it
And then those parents speak more English at home and only use their home language to yell at their kids or nag them. And then have the gall to complain about the kids not liking the language or make fun of them for mistakes.
There is zero shame in being monolingual or bilingual or trilingual or multilingual.
Do it if it makes you happy. Don't do it if it does not, if it is too hard work. It is a personal choice that doesn't affect anyone else. It's not like eating animals/meat. That is NOT just a "personal choice". That tortures and murders innocent animals.
I was born and raised here in Florida my parents are from El Salvador, but I barley know Spanish. When I was in high School there were other latino teens not American but born in their native country they use to make fun of me because I couldn't speak Spanish some didn't except me because of it there were times I felt sad and alone. Now that I'm older I have more latino friends and now I am learning little by little my teen years were pretty tough.
I always spoke Spanish to my Puerto Rican parents. My wife said her Spanish parents would speak to her in Spanish and she would respond in English. When we married we spoke English unless we wanted to say something we did not want our children to know. We finally decided our youngest was our last hope so we sent her to live and study in Spain for the summer. She is the only one who understands Spanish although she can barely speak it. This is common with most. Asian kids do not speak their original language by the 3rd generation.
this is on the laws that were in place, the parents, and even the children themselves. I actually went through multiple waves of knowing and not knowing spanish. i learned English at 4 and stopped speaking spanish completely until about 13 when I moved to the border of Texas/Mexico. I regained what i had lost through struggling! I HAD to speak Spanish, otherwise stores and vendors would scam me in Mexico. I came back to the North more confident and slowly started losing it again because all my friends were white and black and spent less time with my family. It went away until I went back down south at 17 and spent 4 years along the border. During those 4 years I was speaking the best Spanish of my life lol. But i’ve moved back up north, it’s been 3 almost 4 years and I don’t have Spanish speaking friends anymore, I spend less time with my family, I’m the only spanish speaker at my job, and my boyfriend is white. I feel myself speak less and less spanish and now whenever I go into La Michoacana or even any mexican store, hasta me da vergüenza hablar. My confidence in it is slipping and it hurts when others treat you different because “you’re too white”. It truly is a struggle but I realize it’s up to me now to seek out others that I can talk to and hold on to what I have and to better myself.
I was born in the US I only spoke Spanish with my parents but that was it I didn’t speak it much at school . I understand Spanish 100% but when it comes to speaking I struggle at times. I’ve been made fun of by my family at times for the way i speak .
Love this!
And then the continued shaming in the comments 🫠🫠🫠
People with a Mexican accent in English who don't speak Spanish are very weird to an actual Mexican.
@Alec Valenzuela no. Doesn't have anything to do with race. I didn't even say that i don't like Mexicans who don't speak Spanish. I just said it's weird to a Mexican who lives in Mexico that your only language is broken English for example. You probably don't see where I'm coming from
I was born in the United States and I have parent both from Mexico and I was told not to speak Spanish but I teach myself to speak Spanish and I spoke both languages I speak Spanish and English fluently but now learning Portuguese to Learn another language I’m am proud of it 🇲🇽🤘
Tragedia, espero que Roberto tenga mucho éxito con el español . Estoy muy afortunado de que mis padres me ayudaron con el español. Pero, tengo mucha empatía para los que tienen dificultad con el español y es triste que muchos sacrifican su cultura para asimilarse a la culture estado unidense, no exclusivamente con los Latinos.
This English speaking country
@@RiseAwakenedOne This is a multilingual platform, pendejo.
@@RiseAwakenedOne una mierda, EEUU no tiene un idioma oficial por la constitución. Florida, Tejas, Nuevo Mexico, California, Nevada. Te suenan Ingleses esos estados pendejo?
@@RiseAwakenedOne puerto rico speak spanish
Soy muy afortunado*
Yesssss
I know I'm going to offend here but, I'll always remember my parents (mom was Mississippi and my father Texas ) both saying of Mexicans speaking english 'pinches mojados come se piensan americanos se les olvidan el espanol!!' Then to Mexicans speaking Spanish they'd say 'what the hell, this ain't mexico speak english here!!' I laugh so much now because at the age of 50, I can't believe that was and is a blanket sentiment in our culture. I'm glad they raised me to read, speak, and write in Spanish fluently and to know my culture, Mexico and its history - and I'm american born and bred - it is a tremendous gift/talent and a sense of pride I can honestly carry higher than those that don't know the first thing about being Mexican.
I just don’t understand why parents stop talking with their kids in spanish when they get here… As if the kids in the rest of the world didn’t do it; some kids like me even grow up with 3 languages… We got here from México when I was 4 and they kept speaking spanish with me my whole life and 3 years later even put me in french classes and, even though I hated it, now I’m so thankful to them because my wife is french. Parents like these just do a huge disservice to their kids making the first 1/5 of their life as easy as possible while screwing up the other 4/5…
Same in Canada I'm from Montreal only one in family who can't speak Spanish other than my dad but he's not Spanish. I don't feel like I belong anywhere.
I'm from Toronto Ontario, I speak Spanish, I wanna start learning French because I wanna be trilingual
I thought French was spoken there.
There's a lot Chicanos that speak Spanish.. but because they don't live in a Spanish speaking country, they don't know a lot of words, which is understandable. However this makes it difficult bc of the lack of vocabulary, y la anglosificacion del español. So when they try to say something in Spanish but they are using the structure of the English language then it can sound odd or, at times, not be understood
This is so sad to hear. I was born and raised in NYC to English monolingual parents and I watched as all my bilingual friends found jobs before me specifically because they are bilingual.
Now I live in Italy and I have a group of friend who are descendants of Italians who immigrated to America and they have told me how sad they are that their parents chose not to teach them italian and they had to learn it later in life.
I have been making sure to teach my kids english even though we live in italy cause i know what the benefits will be later in life.
This, i believe is the problem of immigrants. Why did you migrate in the first place? You assimilate into the new environment. Why can't they be fluent in their parents' language? Because they go to school where english is the medium of instruction, you need to communicate with classmates and teachers, so you're forced to acquire fluency in English. Some households require kids to speak a native language at home, eventually making kids multilingual. It should not make you feel less of a Latino or Asian or Islander if you cannot speak the language. It's what is in your heart. Anyway, an immigrant will forever look different no matter how or what they speak. The conversation here should be more about appreciating diversity! Let's not pressure these kids, people. They have more problems today than what parents want them on their plates.
Cause then you need it in other places or to talk to other family memebers or friends if they don't know spanish then they can't even understand the culture or comunicate with the people they sometimes claim.
Virtually every Hispanic person knows Spanish in the United States.
America does not have enough money support second language for everyone.
@@SuperRip7 we can learn something or new skills without depending on the govt. Let's not depend on what the govt can offer us. Some countries offer free education.
@@asperneto I believe it's called charity or private education.
@@asperneto Moreover native-speakers of English (about 80-percent) effectively do not learn another foreign languages in school which explains why they are monolingual all over the nation.
Yeah. It is not their fault. The ESL program is already costing a king's ransom and it is growing all the time. Eventually it begins to decline, since quality always takes a tumble every child must go to school. This is why I never "wag the finger" or speaking bitterly to anyone who is monolingual. Their opportunity were denied as children.
I felt this to heart. I'm an American of Dominican descent, and I get scolded a lot by members of the Latino community, but I don't really care. I'm a gringo at heart and proud of it. Latino is part of my roots, but the united states will always be my country.
And you should be proud of being an American!! There’s a reason why our immigrant parents came to this country, the land of opportunity! 🇺🇸 and I love it, “gringo at heart..”😆👍🏼
Same here, I’m actually an indigenous Mexican who arrived at age 6 only speaking my indigenous language. The English speakers always treated me as an equal unlike the Spanish speakers. So I’ve decided to forget about my country that disrespects people like me and become solid American as I am anyways whichever way one sees it.
Very rare occasion.
@@SuperRip7 thank you because its rare to hear about a Dominican who doesn’t speak Spanish.
@@chancellorpalpatineakathes6130 I speak Wayuu! I didn’t teach my kids Spanish
Spanish is from Spain and not from Latin America.
I was in bilingual classes all the way to 5th grade lol cause I couldn’t speak English till 3rd grade 😭😂
Jose Medina freaks me out
I'm of middle eastern descent. I LoVe Spanish. It's a musical language, the words rhyme. I'm learning Spanish through Rosetta stone. I have a tutor from Peru online. I am always watching Spanish news and baby story books. Te Qeuro Espanol.
Normalizing bad language hurts the culture.
Eres un ignorante hablar varios idiomas benefician al mundo Canadá habla inglés y francés
Smdh..y quien tiene la culpa..LOS PAPAS!! I get it..it's alot easier to communicate in English. As a 1st generation Mexican American, I believe it's very important to learn how to speak the Native Tongue and to never forget where you/family come from..que pinche vergüenza.
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Eh, at some degree yes. But that does not mean you are under the gun to speak the "mother tongue". In the end, who gives a f where you came from, it's more of you present yourself as person. Your cultural background or religion doesn't define you, your personality does.
Aren't all Mexican Americans first generation?
@@jonasvalerothank you
Man that’s what I’m saying who gets to judge if you speak English or your native language
I was born in the USA, the first language I spoke and understood was Haitian Creole. When I first went to daycare the teachers would talk to me in English and I had no idea what the hell they were talking about and I would talk to them in Creole. They told my mom that she has to teach me English. So then my grandma came into the picture at 4 years old and she couldn't speak English to save her life unless it's the word "Fyou" lol. So growing up I spoke Creole with my grandmother, English and Creole with my mom, and English in school. Only thing is I can't read the Creole language but I can speak and understand fluently.
I can read and understand Spanish but I don’t feel comfortable speaking. I have no one to speak it with so it’s hard to keep up speaking Spanish.
It's called envy
Well, if you expect other Americans to learn Spanish, why don’t you?
He dose man just stop hating on us spanish
My dad spoke spanish. I'm 3rd generation from his side (my mom's side is white, dad's side is mexican). I knew some spanish when I was little, but not well. Never picked it up. I'm trying to learn spanish now though.
¡EXCELENTE programa, me encanta! ¡Somos latinos/hispanos y es un orgullo! Saludos a todos los que hablamos la lengua #castellana/española.
Si eres Hispano a latino vale mas que vivas en Europa si no eres un invasor.
@@Halcon_Sierreno Y tu quien eres para definir quien es invasor?
Cálmate, nadie se está refiriendo a los españoles en este vídeo, si no la comunidad latina
You are natives, worship a white men language and don't know your own language 😂😂😂 what a lost culture...
I went to elementary school in the Bay Area in the 1970s. When my mom was going to register us for school, she was asked what language we spoke at home. When she asked why, she was told if our first langauge was Spanish we would be ESL students. My mom wanted to give us the best shot to succeed in school so sh made sure we spoke fluent English. California of the 70s was not as accommodtaing to Spanish speakers as it is now. We basically had all of our "Mexican-ness" stripped out of us. Years later, many school districts would change their policies and approaches to educating non-English speaking students. It wasn't until I was in my 30s that I began to reconnect with my Mexican heritage. Despite wanting to reconnect with my culture and raise my own daughter in that culture, I still encounter other Latinos who see me as "less than" because my Spanish is not very good. Some people are outright hostile to me for not being Mexican enough for their liking. While I feel fortunate to be able to experience my culture while passing it on to my daughter, I am always reminded that in the end, I'm not quite Mexican enough.
God these are our struggles today
Hello handsome 💞🥰♥️♥️
Greetings from me to you 💞♥️💗💋💋💞
I hate that I chose to always respond to my mother in English because now I'm a receptive bilingual. I can communicate in Spanish but not fluently, and it's anxiety inducing and embarrassing. Spanish speaking parents should require their children to speak in their native language. It only benefits the kids.
The aztecs, incas etc didn't speak spanish neither do Brazilians
Most latin American countries spoke Mayan languages back then before the Spanish colonized them
Who cares. They don't exist anymore
@@za.monolit they still do,look it up
@@AA-wu2fk not their civilizations.
Ok but whose job is it to be judging what people speak
This so cool and heartwarming 1gen mexican is hard af! ❤
They should be teaching all of our children as soon as they're in preschool. I wish I had the opportunity to learn to speak Spanish. I have been self-teaching for years now and it's been tough. I work with so many Spanish ppl that I love and have a friendship with, and it would be a better, and even stronger relationship if we didn't have a language barrier. I look at our country as US/Spanish- America we're neighbors we should be able to communicate.
Spanish people? We don't border spain.
Teaching another language in schools is not enough. One needs to speak it everyday, practice with someone in order to acquire fluency. But, it should not make you feel any less of a Latina or anything else.
@@Lawlzinator some east coast thing, they call anyone who speaks spanish "spanish"
No there's no need
We are Latinos. We are good people. We must focus on doing what is right. We must focus on our culture, language and customs. Language is part of that. We must not involve ourselves in black and white issues.
Bien dicho
As a 4th Mexican American my great grandparents knew English so you definitely lose the language especially because my grandparents and parents were punished in school for talking it. I definitely would like to learn more I learned a lot because I worked for Kroger and we changed the store I worked at to a Fry’s Mercado and I had to learn which I feel really benefited me
As a grandchild of Italian immigrants my parents /aunts and uncles spoke both languages, but mostly English. They spoke Italian when convenient in front of the children not to hear private conversations. They didn’t teach us Italian because we were Americans. Our family saw themselves as American 🇺🇸, but proud of their heritage 🇮🇹
I picked up a few phrases of Italian, but don’t speak or write the language. Sometimes I wish I could.
As Americans, we should consider what Theodore Roosevelt said about “being an American- Man in the Arena.”
Too many languages are separating this nation not understanding each other. One common language, but embrace each heritage. More united in the past as a melting pot. Now everyone is offended by differences not recognized.
Only thing I am offended is other people taking away Columbus Day.
I'm a no sabo kid. I've decided to reconnect with my spanish. The internet provides that luxury to learn and connect.
I come from a latino hispanic family I don't speak spanish fully it frustrated me that I only speak english. Get the comments from my job from a customer often do you speak english have to keep my cool and put on a brave face and a force smile and be nice and polite to them when inside I went to yell and scream and let it go.
I always tell them this is America and the dominant language here is English which most people here speak. It’s good to know the language of the country you’re privileged to live in and respect the language there. That usually shuts them up. Sometimes I get spoken to in Italian because I look Sicilian to people but I’m 🇵🇷🇨🇺.
How are you from a Latino hispanic family but can't speak spanish.
That is very rare.
@@HazelGreen64 stfu we speak any language we want lol
Yaritza y su esencia mexicana lmao 😂😂😂
Yo solo como chicken 🤣
My grandparents didn't teach their kids Spanish so they would face less discrimination and be able to get a better job. By the time I was a teenager knowing Spanish was seen as a good thing but my dad never learned although one of his sisters did. But during my grandparents and dads time, kids were discouraged from speaking Spanish, hit with rulers, had their mouths washed out with soap etc.
Honestly, when I was younger, my parents where not married, and my father was Spanish while my mother was white (Scottish) my grandma never taught my father Spanish and I never saw her enough to learn it. After a while, my mom took me and moved from my father (along with our dog) and moved. Sence in the state we lived in had not many Spanish people, I grew up learning no Spanish after living in a completely English household and community. It wasn’t until I went to McAllen,Texas that I thought about learning it either.
You father was from Spain?
@@themechanictangerine4337 Not him exactly, but his (and kinda mine) ancestors were.
I was born and raised in Puerto Rico but one side of my family is American, so i have an American accent in Spanish and trouble with grammar. In PR, I'm too American. In America, I'm too Puerto Rican 🥲
I did a bilingual class in 3rd grade. Spanish/English. Honestly the whole year felt like a waste of time and I got super behind. You learn a tiny amount of Spanish and it's very distracting from normal schoolwork. I'm all for learning languages but at least my bilingual class felt like a disaster.
Manden a sus hijos a Mexico pues
This is AMERICA. Speak English. Be AMERICAN. Love America
It's possible to love America, be American, and speak English and Spanish. Most second-generation Americans speak a second language. It's pathetic how so many Americans only speak English! All of my foreign friends speak at least two languages.
@@ShantiD575 I agree it is pathetic. But America & English is all I know. Can't blame me. I have many international friends. We joke all the time, but at the end of the day. This is America.
ive lived in America my whole life and don't like. the shootings and mental illness here are ridiculous. the homelessness too. america doesn't care about it's cirizens
NO SABO KIDS …
Or Edgar's
Well it’s too late for me to embrace my background because my Spanish is that of a one year old I decided just to drop it and just embrace the inner whiteness I somehow developed from not knowing any Spanish I’m already 30 and it’s gotten to a point where I can’t even read Spanish with a Spanish accent (my Spanish accent is horrible and I use to be teased a lot for it)
Definitely relatable 😆
They should take pride in not knowing the language.
Do the descendants of other immigrants like Italians Spanish French still speak their original language don’t think so. This is a stupid subject this is America 🇺🇸 and eventually everyone assimilates
😂😂😂 dude most immigrants speak their language and whose job it is for you to be Caring what other people speak like come on man
That dudes voice…geez.
Personality we have many criticism against the latinos who don't know speak Spanish, specially against the parents who didn't teach to their children
Ok but is it your job to judge other people’s business or language
Also the sky is blue
Yes Yes Yes this is what happened to me
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Let’s go Brandon!
Lame
It's getting old, quickly.
Vamos Brandon! lol!!
@Carpe Diem Remember when Hunter did a crack run with air force 2? Oh you watch MSM so no.
Robert is a waste of space....until he learnt his own language!!
Learn Spanish this will be used to discriminate against those who can’t
I'm not even a Latino but I can hold a conversation in spanish 🇪🇸🇵🇭
who really wants to assimilate to food with no seasoning, hot dogs and hamburgers, sandwiches for lunch.
I grew up in Texas, Im hispanic myself but dont know how to even hold a conversation in spanish. None of my siblings speak spanish at all nor do I. I have been called white washed and been picked on so much for not knowing how to speak spanish and people thinking i am white. I still do to this day from people and friends sometimes. My dad didn't want to teach us since my mom doesn't know any. Same goes with some of my cousins and tias, and uncles, not all of them tho. I just wish I was able to, I try to practice and all I listen to is spanish music, and use spanish words all my life now. But feel like I will never actually get to know what it feels like talking with someone in a different language from english. It would be so cool and I honestly would be happy. I hope one day I atleast get to hold conversations.
No there latinos man I can tell
Sorry you were surrounded by so many anti-white racists.
My daughter was criticized for not speaking, spanish at all, by some Hispanic Karen at her job 😒 like it's anyone else's business.
This does NOT happen only on the LatinX communities. Nor is it new to this generation or the recent previous one. PLEASE DO NOT POLITICIZE YET ONE MORE THING THAT SHOULD INSTEAD BE BRINGING US TOGETHER!!!! My mother was born in the US, but never spoke a word of English until she started school at 5 years old. In 1947. People would meet her walking with her grandfather on the Lower East Side of NYC and ask him, "Did she just get off the boat??"--A very heavily loaded question at the time, of course!! But no, she spoke only Yiddish bc her grandparents escaped the Pogroms and they only spoke Yiddish with their 4 kids and their families at home. This is the melting pot that is America. No one owns it culturally. We MUST STOP trying to take ownership of our history or our story and think that we are alone in that experience. It is clearly dividing us more and more with each generation. And look at where it has brought us--PLEASE be part of the solution, not the problem!! One by one, we can do it!! Broaden this effort beyond the LatinX Americans. It will make everyone that much stronger as they learn from eachother. Together!!!
So native speakers of English did not exist in New York?