Both of my parents are Nigerians and they both speak Igbo. However, none of my siblings including myself can speak it. I used to speak a little bit but i was really young. However I can COMPLETELY understand it, I just can't speak it. My parents are always talking about how they see Asian, Indian, and Mexican kids speaking their language but we can't. I feel really ashamed because I have both parents that speak the language. I am 15 years old and would like to speak fluently before i get too old or leave home. any advice?

Guess what, we are here for opportunity. My people will learn eventually. My parents learned in time when they came to the U.S and they are now succesfull.

There are other spanish speaking Latinos to worry about. Also, check out the Spaniards. They're white and they speak Spanish. In fact, because of their conquests years ago in Latin America, Mexicans speak spanish because their ancestors were forced to learn by the Spaniards. The Spaniards were the first Spanish speakers just like the British were the first English speakers.

By the way, I'm not racist. In fact, I hope to visit Spain someday as well as Japan.

Also, not all Mexicans are brown. I'm white skinned. A lot of people have thought that I'm not Mexican until I start talking like one.

By the way, I learned in James Clavell's Shogun that language is the key to survival in any country.

VIVA LA RAZA!
By the way, I was born an American citizen thus making me Mexican-American. I'm not an immigrant. My parents have been American citizens for 4 or 5 years now. I helped them study for their exams.

Guess what, we are here for opportunity. My people will learn eventually. My parents learned in time when they came to the U.S and they are now succesfull.

There are other spanish speaking Latinos to worry about. Also, check out the Spaniards. They're white and they speak Spanish. In fact, because of their conquests years ago in Latin America, Mexicans speak spanish because their ancestors were forced to learn by the Spaniards. The Spaniards were the first Spanish speakers just like the British are the first English speakers.

By the way, I'm not racist. In fact, I hope to visit Spain someday as well as Japan.

Also, not all Mexicans are brown. I'm white skinned. A lot of people have thought that I'm not Mexican until I start talking like one.

By the way, I learned in James Clavell's Shogun that language is the key to survival in any country.

VIVA LA RAZA!

I don't want to come across rascist or mean, I am just really curious about this and can't ask the person directly because I don't want to offend her. I live in L.A. and work with with this 25 year old Mexican female who has lived in the U.S. since she was 2. Her vocabulary and English is very poor considering she lived here since the age most people start to speak. For instance, she may refer to fish (plural) as "fishes" - stuff like that. I realize that her parents must not have spoken English, which slowed the process, but she has lived here 23 out of the 25 years of her life. Any ideas?

So I'm just really annoyed because my cousin and i are really close but im more of a brown color and she is pretty fair. When we tell ppl that we are cousins they don't believe us because im brown and she
is lighter skin color than me. They say she is not mexican because "she is white and doesn't speak spanish". I tell them im mexican and i can't speak spanish either, they say "but your brown".
It's not like she is mixed both her parents are mexican, her mom is as dark as me and her dad is light skinned but still mexican. She just came out light like her dad, we can not
control genetics.
I try to tell ppl that you do not have to be brown or be able to speak spanish in
order to be mexican but they just ignore my comments.
It just gets irritating and annoying for both of us, guess that
people think if your not brown or speak spanish then you are not mexican.
Oh well, guess we well just have to get use to it.

Who else feels the same way i do when i say i'm sick and tired about all the bad talk about "Anchor Babies" should be stripped of citizen ship and how Mexican's will burn in Hell? All those lame jokes. People say "I'm not against the Latino's only illegal one's". Do you agree with that or do you think it's a bunch of racist bull and their trying to cover it up?
For all you know it all's i'm an US citizen born and raised both my parents are white. I do know what the word illegal means, my husband was born in Mexico!

Where someone's speaking very normal-sounding English, and then they switch into Spanish and it's like the most Mexican-sounding Spanish ever. The accent is so Mexican that it outMexicans the Mexican actors on telenovelas. Don't most people get a strong foreign accent when they speak their second language? Heck I was raised in a bilingual environment and I'm terrible at my parents' language.

Hello. I am a Mexican and I am willing to join the US army but I don't know how. My parents don't support my decision so I don't know how to get more information about this. I can speak fluent English, I studied in private schools but I really want to join the US army. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I'm 100% Mexican, but I have lived in the U.S. since I was 9 months old and I've never been to Mexico ever since. My point is I know English (I went to school from kindergarten through 12th grade) AND Spanish (my parents only know Spanish so they taught me Spanish), but I REALLY wanna learn the Japanese language.

My question is, would it be easier to learn Japanese with English explanations (like grammar and such) or with Spanish explanations?

yea my parents and i have a very weird relationship,
they dont speak english and i dont speak spanish, they can understand english and i can understand spanish but thats it. we understand eachother just fine though is that weird ive lived like this my whole life am i the only one? i lived just outside of dallas my whole life and never really had use spanish in school or to my friends so inever used it. im just wondering is there a generation of hispanics that dont know how to speak spanish very well.

I'm sick of hearing "You need to learn Spanish because there are so many Spanish speaking people here." Why should the U.S. spend billions of dollars a year for foreign language studies, particularly Spanish, if the Mexicans are coming here? Just because there's an influx of illegal Mexicans jumping the border, we have to emphasize on Spanish?? I don't think the Mexican government would be so kind if many Americans moved to Mexico. They probably wouldnt stress English studies just to better comfort Americans living in their own country. Shouldn't immigrants be required to know basic English, instead of virtually requiring the American population to learn their language?
Although it is good to know Spanish, it shouldn't be the preferred language to learn? For example, many parents in the U.S. make their kids learn spansh BECAUSE of the influx of mexicans here. it's nonsense to accomodate foreigners(many illegal) so royally. I want to learn Italian, but no, Spanish will be better for my future because of this issue
you don't understand; I acknowledge that is better for my future and in some cases I will be payed more, but my point is that shouldn't be!
It shoudn't be that Spanish in particular will help me the most in my future; it shouldn't be that knowing particularly Spanish will earn me a higher paycheck, it shouldn't be that Mexican immigrants are influencing America so much!

By the way, for another person, if knowing basic English was made an actual amendment, wouldn't it be a clean slate? The politicians wouldn't be able get the advantage from the immigrants that way.
Although not all spanish speaking people are mexicans, can you tell me that if there were no illegal mexicans in the us, spanish would still be as popular in the us? no, you cant. I just think that if the mexican immigrants were finally kept at a limit, and the borders were enforced, the mexicans in the us wouldnt be able to say "there are so many of us here, so that's why you guys should learn our language instead of french, italian, chinese, etc. but whatever, i've decided to stop added on to this post because after reading the feedback, I've begun to realize that any argument in favor of the mexicans can be struck down with a counterexample just as valid, if not more valid than the original. It's just not right that so many mexicans are in our country, and even more so that we are accomodating them, despite whether or not english is hard to learn. WE live here now, and have lived here for the past centuries, so either respect where you're invading or get out please!

and is 100% native american?

http://immigration.change.org/blog/view/deported_parents_stolen_infants_your_family-friendly_government

not my article i havent really read it yet im not for or against it just wanted to use the picture in it

I am Chicana, both my parents were born in Mexico and I was born in the United States. Do I mark "some other race" and write Mexican?
Do I just mark white?

I absolutely love both of my astounding parents - mom who is white and father who is one hundred percent mexican. I'd say from a personal standpoint, I look 75% mexican and 25% white but usually, people assume that I am full mexican at first glance. However, I dont speak spanish! While I never really feel embarassed or rebuked at times when people/friends say: "What! no habla espanol?", I really would like to become very fluent at one point time or another, at least before I graduate from UC Irvine. Im 18 now, and I've taken quite a few spanish classes but it just seems that the workload from other classes always tends to outdo the actual learning aspect of spanish - in other words, I usually find myself studying just for the grade itself, rather than learning the language in its completeness (again, due to the workload of other classes). I really would like to study spanish during the summer/winter, when classes aren't so darn harsh. Are there any programs that you guys recommend?

I've always been sort of amazed at how my Mexican classmates speak English and Spanish fluently. I can't even speak my own language which is kind of a shame.. Although I understand completely. So US born Spaniards/Mexicans, did your parents teach you? I'm very curious. Thank you.

I know Spanish, fluent, but I learned Mexican Spanish. And the regions where my parents are from, the voseo form is not used. I could bump up my grade in my Spanish class if I learned it. Does anybody have any idea on how to incorporate the voseo into my Spanish?

My neighbors' parents were born in the country of Mexico and both speak English and Spanish fluently.

Anyhow, today at work someone said, "He speaks Mexican good (sic)." and I corrected him by saying, "Mexican is not a language. Do you mean Spanish?". He said, "No. There's a difference between Mexican and Spanish."

So, when I saw my neighbors I asked them. They told me there was a difference but couldn't explain what the difference was.

My thought is that American and Australians have venacular common to their culture, but we don't say that we speak American. We speak English.

So, I'm lost. Is Mexican a language and, if so, what's the difference between Mexican and Spanish?

My parents are from Guatemala and people in LA always assume that I am mexican. I'm sure If I moved to Miami I would be considered Cuban, and if I moved to New York I would be considered Puerto Rican.

It is just like calling all Asians Chinese. Every Latin country has a different culture and accent. It is ignorant to say all of us come from Mexico. No excuse!

i know its spanish, but its not like mexicans speak it.is it like dialect or something? my parents are from nicaragua(mom from corinto,my dad from Managua) but Mexican people think i speak spanish weird.... how is it different and what are some words that we use differently?