School stuff.... Help me out please!

I gotta do a survey for an essay I have to write.... trying to fini**** up today and move on with my other essays I gotta write, lol. The survey is REALLY quick and you don't even have to give an email or anything :) Just click, click, click done!

Soooo here's a link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=H0QMj0It55HOvEHdMv4YGw_3d_3d

I'm really stressed out this week and I just can't wait to get this semester over with! Thanks in advance for helping me out! You guys rock! *hugs*

Hope I didn't screw up your survey...lol but I did do it. I am so not a supporter of being bilingual. But I might be the wrong person to ask..I think I am a bit tramatized lol My looks say I should speak spanish, my mind says I just took 1 year in HS and I didn't pay much attention (just needed the 1 year of a foreign language credit), my work says We Pay You More to Speak Spanish...so I do...I took a dictionary and taught myself work words so I could get the higher pay...Ummm Yeah that is ridiculous!!! I Heart English!!!

no way, lol... you're part of the normal population of people, so your responses count just as much as anyone else's I want average attitude towards the concepts, there is no right or wrong :)

Hope it helps, took your survery so hopefully that will help you with your essay. I honestly think very strongly about this subject, I was raised in California and Las Vegas and then moved to a small town in east Texas 7 years ago. I work in the customer service field and suprisingly Spanish (other languages are common but not so much as Spanish) is spoken by I'd say 35% of our population. It could be because we are in Texas and it is a common entry area for people leaving Mexico and other countries farther south, but I cannot change these people either. A LOT of people come to America from Mexico and yes, they may be trying to learn English, then again they may not, but regardless, if you deal with the general public, you are going to have to deal with people who 1. don't speak the language that is spoken and/or 2. don't understand anything you are saying and/or 3. you may not understand what they are saying in whichever language they speak.

I wish I knew more Spanish then I do, I know very few saying, but I do know gracias and I may not be able to speak to them in their language, but I do try to include gracias as they leave, just to let them know I am trying and I'm not completely rude...But then again I sign thank you also to any deaf customers I have.

A lot of this depends on a person's personal opinion...I know a lot of people *****fuse to learn any other language and will not even try to communicate with someone if they don't speak Engli**** all just depends on the person...

haha it was the perfect survey for me lol.
good luck!!!!!!.
hugs

I do think everyone should be bilingual. English is an important language, and would be a good choice for a language to learn, but there are lots out there. I am grateful that I started to learn Fren*****indergarden. 

And it is science that you learn languages better as a child. When you are learning objects-->language it doesnt matter what the language is. Good reason why kids become fluent in the language that they are brought up being around in. You see something, don't know what it is, you learn the word for it. I you are in an English area, you learn the english word, if you are in a Chinese area you learn the chinese and so on. Now when you are adult, you pretty much know all the object-->language formations and they are pretty cemented in your brain. Now you are trying to introduce some other representation of it, and what tends to happen is you translate from you know. For instance if you were to learn French as an adult when you have an English base, you would see something red and think "red". Then to say it in french you do object-->English "red"-->French "rouge". Whereas if you learned both at the same time it would be just as easy to go straight from object-->rouge as it is to go from object-->red.

And you can see this yourself if you think about ethnic things, like lets say food. There are some things I learned in Chinese that when I see I think the Chinese name not English. I see a "steamed bun" called a "bow-tszeh" and I think "bow-tszeh". When I have to translate it to people in English I have to go from object-->chinese-->english. That sort of thing.

Anyways, my late night ramblings are over for now. :)

I could still use a few more responses guys. Pass the link on to your frinds if you can! I gotta write the paper on it today :P Thanks everyone who has helped me out ^_^

got one more

I just took the survey....
although most people think its not that important to be bilingual...i think it is very important!!!!
I live in hawaii with so many different languages and cultural groups (hawn, Micro, Samoan, Jap).....
There is alot more job opportunities for bilingual people....
Yah we live in america where the standard language is english....
But....america has become so diverse...that it is becoming important to know more than one language in order to serve, conversate, and etc.....

when i was small...
i used to think about how weird and creepy everyone who spoke a second language was....
but now...im like "TOTALLY COOL DUDE".....

Its very interesting to see peoples opinion and perspective...and this my Folks makes America America!!!

LMao

Thanks everyone! You guys really helped me a lot. I just finished my report and I'm sooo glad it's over. Basically all I did was talk about the overall results of the survey. There is no right or wrong, I was just seeing what public opinion is. Here are the general results in case anyone is interested. The detailed results won't copy right but I summarized them.

*The "Majority" part is what the largest percentage of people answered. Majority may be 35% for example if some other responses gained almost equally. The best judge of overall opinion is probably the average rating.*

1. Everyone should study a second language.

Majority: Agree or Strongly agree. Average rating: 3.71

2. Public schooling should force study of a second language.

Majority: Agree. Average rating: 3.16

3. It is more difficult to learn a second language as an adult than as a child. Majority: Strongly agree. Average Rating: 4.26

4. Learning a language has the same difficulty no matter your age.

Majority: Disagree. Average Rating: 2.03

5. Study of a second language should start in preschool.

Majority: Agree. Average Rating: 3.61

6. Study of a second language should start in elementary school.

Majority: Agree. Average Rating: 3.42

7. Study of a second language should start in middle school.

Majority: Disagree. Average Rating: 2.74

8. Study of a second language should start in high school.

Majority: Disagree. Average Rating: 2.55

9. Learning a second language is unimportant.

Majority: Disagree. Average Rating: 1.81

10. Learning a second language will help you get farther in life.

Majority: Agree. Average Rating: 4.13

11. Learning a second language is important for cultural understanding.

Majority: Agree. Average Rating: 3.84

12. Being bilingual is an advantage in life.

Majority: Strongly agree. Average Rating: 4.45

13. Everyone should aim to be bilingual.

Majority: Neither agree nor disagree, but of the rest, most said they agree. Average Rating: 3.52

14. In the United States it is essential to study English to fluency.

Majority: Agree or Strongly agree. Average Rating: 4.23

15. Children who arrive in this country not speaking English should be taught other subjects (math, science, history) in their native language.

Majority: Disagree. Average Rating: 2.39

16. Children who arrive in this country not speaking English should focus on learning English before other subjects.

Majority: Agree or Strongly agree. Average Rating: 3.48

17. Test-makers should do their best to make standardized tests unbiased towards American culture.

Majority: Neither agree nor disagree, but of the rest, most said they agree. Average Rating: 3.42