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 ...
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.
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
Current poll results...
Helpful (0 Votes, 0%)
Harmful (8 Votes, 100%)
Don’t Know (0 Votes, 0%)
100 percent with 19 votes.
Helpful (0 Votes, 0%)
Harmful (27 Votes, 100%)
Don’t Know (0 Votes, 0%)
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)
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.
Updated poll results...
Helpful (2 Votes, 2%)
Harmful (78 Votes, 96%)
Don’t Know (1 Votes, 1%)
Done!
97% say Spanish language broadcasts are harmful.
Done. Freeped.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Just voted.
Help. 5 votes = 3%
Harm. 159 votes = 96%
D/K. 2 votes = 1%
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?”
Helpful
(6 Votes, 3%)
Harmful
(170 Votes, 96%)
Don’t Know
(2 Votes, 1%)
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