KT - I do hope you were joking about your comment "Now English has become so predominant here that our mother tongues, such as Chinese, are almost in danger of being wiped off the scene. No doubt this will greatly please my dear Anglo-Saxon friends here on this board... "
I don't think that is true at all. I have always believed that people grow through diversity - and if we all spoke the same language it would kill a few cultures. I speak only a little Yiddish, and haven't met anyone besides New Yorkers or Jews who have the faintest idea what I am talking about, and yet - the English Translation lacks everything.
Donut - "I don't think Americans should embark upon learning another language before they have mastered English."
What can I say? Americans can't speak the Queen's English, it would require enunciation. And frankly, Southern Accents preclude that! LOL
