English Should Not Be the Official Language of the United St

Learning a Language is Hard!

We have all taken a language

throughout our high school careers and

most of us can agree that it is a difficult

thing to learn. Yes, you may learn a little

here and there, but you will most likely

never be able to speak another language fluently. If we were to make every new

citizen from a different country learn

English in order to live here,

we would be putting way too

much stress on their lives.

One Language Would Affect Cultures

Would you be okay

with that if it were you and your family?

English Isn't Our

Only Language

People come to our country

knowing that they will be able to live their lives how they want, be able to express themselves and be able to celebrate their own culture. Languages are big parts of cultures and people should be aloud to speak whatever language they want. If we were to speak only one language, we could potentially hurt the many

cultures we see in our

country today.

No!

Don't Be

Selfish!

People of the U.S. tend to believe

that English is our only language,

but it is not. We have people

from all over the world living here, thus making our country multilingual.

We have signs, recordings and even

directions to put things together in

multiple languages and because of

this, we have made it easy for

anyone to do and understand

things.

If we were to follow through

with making English the single, official language of the United States, we would be making a mistake. We would only be thinking about the English speakers of our country and not the non-English speakers. It is rude and

completely selfish.

So don't do that to someone else

The United States is a

country full of many great things. We are a very diverse

and multilingual country that

allows people to be who they

are. It has always been this

way and should remain

this way!

This is a common problem

across the world. People will

go to other countries and face the difficulty of having a simple conversation just because the don't know the language spoken there. Places like Italy, France and Germany have made their own official languages and that's good for them. But with this, they have made it difficult for foreigners to live there

unless they know the countries'

spoken languages.

Here's your situation:

You take a vacation to Italy

and decide to go to a lovely, little cafe for brunch. You want to order some food for yourself, but end up staring blankly at the menu because you can't read what it says. You're now frustrated and mad.

Sucks, right?

We should not

make English the official

language of the United

States. If we were to do so, there would be more negative effects rather than positive

and it would cause too

many problems.

Hola!

Ni hao!

English Should Not be the Official Language of the United States

Konnichiwa!

Ciao!

Skyler, Alex, Taylor, Jordan & Dillon

Bonjour!

Hailō!

Hello!

Hallo!