Lunsford (blog #2)

I read the article about "If Only We All Spoke Two Languages" by Ariel Dorfman. When I read this I really got a little sad about this because of what he had to go through in life by how he moved to New York not knowing any English language. Only knew Spanish by then and he was only 2 1/2 years old when he had to go to the hospital in New York. He had to go through this all his life by needing to know two languages by going to a lot of schooling to learn it. I would imagine that he wants this bilingual method to happen so he can talk to people from america and whenever his family or people like him come to visit america he can still talk to them. Most importantly is to learn english because america is all enlish. Now at an older age he has been moving back and forth moving to America and back out, such as going to Chile for schooling. He needed to go to school again to learn Spanish because when he was in America he forgot everything in his own language, now that he has gone for school for this, he is now bilingual. Which means he can speak two different languages, he wants America to turn into a bilingual country. I really agree with this man because it would be really cool, first off to be able to speak to other people that know Spanish and also to learn about their culture. I totally agree that this should happen, for America to turn into a bilingual country. Some people wouldn't want it to happen because they may not want to learn another language, dont like other people from a different culter or to lazy to learn the language. But if you think of it we are kind of, by us know American Sign Language and English. For americans this would really be a good idea because you would get to learn about other different cultures around the world. What they have to go through, what and how the other languages sound like. How it sounds really unique from english by how other languages sound like just making noises and sounds to us. I would like to hear how many other people would react to this and see what they think of. This arguement was really effective and I didn't appreciate it because I really feel bad for the fact that other people from other countries visiting a beutiful country called america, and not knowing any enlish. Also that americans dont know what they are talking about whenever they need help or anything like that. This reading connected to chapters 2,3,4 and mostly talking about chapter 2 by saying what peoples emotions are like. What they are trying to do different and trying to figure something out from themselves.