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FReep This Poll! Are Spanish-language media helpful or harmful to English-learning Latinos?
North County Times/The Californian ^ | June 15, 2007 | North County Times/The Californian

Posted on 06/15/2007 8:32:48 PM PDT by DogByte6RER

FReep This Poll!

Are Spanish-language media helpful or harmful to English-learning Latinos?

More Helpful

Harmful

Don't Know

(Excerpt) Read more at nctimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: amnesty; borders; culture; english; immigrantlist; immigration; language; press1forenglish; press2forspanish; schwarzennegger; shamnesty; spanish; telemundo
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Go to the North County Times/The Californian link provided.

Scroll down a bit and look for the poll on the right hand side of the webpage.

Vote your choice.

Note: This poll should remain open until Saturday night.

1 posted on 06/15/2007 8:32:52 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
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Related article:

“Schwarzenegger: Avoid Spanish-language media to learn English”

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/06/15/news/state/14_03_456_14_07.txt


2 posted on 06/15/2007 8:33:48 PM PDT by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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Current poll results...

Helpful (0 Votes, 0%)

Harmful (8 Votes, 100%)

Don’t Know (0 Votes, 0%)


3 posted on 06/15/2007 8:35:29 PM PDT by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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To: DogByte6RER

100 percent with 19 votes.


4 posted on 06/15/2007 8:35:52 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: DogByte6RER

Helpful (0 Votes, 0%)
Harmful (27 Votes, 100%)
Don’t Know (0 Votes, 0%)


5 posted on 06/15/2007 8:36:57 PM PDT by indcons (Linda and Hugo Chavez - same goals, different methods)
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To: DogByte6RER

Keep FReepin! BTTT! It’s only 95% - 3% (2% took the time to tell them they had no clue, but they were sure about that)


6 posted on 06/15/2007 8:46:27 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (I buy gas for my SUV with the Carbon Offsets I sell on Ebay!)
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To: DogByte6RER
What a stupid question.

Spanish speaking media is here to stay and dumb polls like this won't make it go away.

In fact they will likely increase in number.

Personally I love the Spanish stations and I watch and listen to them all time.

7 posted on 06/15/2007 8:50:33 PM PDT by Jorge
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Updated poll results...

Helpful (2 Votes, 2%)

Harmful (78 Votes, 96%)

Don’t Know (1 Votes, 1%)


8 posted on 06/15/2007 8:59:53 PM PDT by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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To: DogByte6RER

Done!

97% say Spanish language broadcasts are harmful.


9 posted on 06/15/2007 9:07:52 PM PDT by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
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To: DogByte6RER

Done. Freeped.


10 posted on 06/15/2007 9:10:48 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: Jorge

As long as the stations are run and financed by private enterprise, I have no problem with them. We have in some markets Chinese, Vietnamese, Arabic, Portuguese, etc. radio stations and weekly newspapers. There’s nothing wrong with that.

I lived in Argentina for two years. There’s a very popular English daily newspaper, The Buenos Aires Herald. Many Argentines read it, not just the American and British expats.

Personally, I can’t watch soccer games on English stations. They don’t know how to do it.


11 posted on 06/15/2007 9:23:52 PM PDT by Choose Ye This Day (If you don't have borders, you don't have a nation.)
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To: Jorge

If you lived with your southern border, Mexico and your county had over 1 million Mexicans not counting the illegals with several TV stations in Spanish and many radio stations the same.
American kids go to school and have their learning disrupted with Spanish.

Signs all over, from buses, to billboards in Spanish and in neighborhoods where there are Mexican free.

There are 2nd & 3rd generation Mexicans here in San Diego who don’t or won’t speak Eglish, you wouldn’t find this
very cute. It is a novelty in your state but not here in San Diego, ground zero for this problem.


12 posted on 06/15/2007 9:43:24 PM PDT by SoCalPol (Duncan Hunter '08 Tough on WOT & Illegals)
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To: SoCalPol
There are 2nd & 3rd generation Mexicans here in San Diego who don’t or won’t speak Eglish, you wouldn’t find this very cute. It is a novelty in your state but not here in San Diego, ground zero for this problem.

I lived in South Florida for many years so a Spanish speaking population is no novelty for me.

I actually enjoyed hearing the language. And I am now enjoying learning to speak it myself.

13 posted on 06/15/2007 9:51:29 PM PDT by Jorge
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To: DogByte6RER

Geez. I saw what he said, this isn’t it. He didn’t mean don’t use the media. He said, you need to immerse yourself in English, make it imperative to learn the language.


14 posted on 06/15/2007 10:15:09 PM PDT by I still care ("Remember... for it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
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To: Jorge

There’s a difference. I come from an Italian family, they always spoke Italian in the home among the older folks. And the young people learned the language because we took pleasure in a great heritage.

But there was always the awareness, that this was America, and while Italian was an absolutely beautiful language, it tied us to the past and was something that we had moved beyond.

We were in America, and proud to speak English and participate in the heritage of our new country.

Everyone learned English except for Great Grandma, and she lost out on so much.


15 posted on 06/15/2007 10:23:15 PM PDT by I still care ("Remember... for it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
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To: DogByte6RER

Just voted.
Help. 5 votes = 3%
Harm. 159 votes = 96%
D/K. 2 votes = 1%


16 posted on 06/15/2007 10:35:46 PM PDT by Peacekeeper357 ( When Gore and the rest of the Limousine Liberals Carbon Footprint match mine,we'll talk)
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To: DogByte6RER

My wife and I were watching something on TV recently and a Russian girl who immigrated here spoke VERY good English.

My wife, who speaks Spanish fluently, says, “Gee she got here only 5 years ago and her English is almost perfect. Why can’t all the illegals learn it?”


17 posted on 06/15/2007 10:44:44 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici
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To: DogByte6RER

Helpful
(6 Votes, 3%)

Harmful
(170 Votes, 96%)

Don’t Know
(2 Votes, 1%)


18 posted on 06/15/2007 10:51:18 PM PDT by charrisGOP ("Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest." - Mark Twain)
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To: DogByte6RER
How could it possibly be helpful?
19 posted on 06/16/2007 5:33:03 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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20 posted on 06/16/2007 9:22:06 AM PDT by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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