But in the United States, it's just not very prevalent for people to be multilingual. It's just not something that's promoted. It's not something that is widely used in the United States. We don't have situations where you may come encounter with a lot of people from a lot of different nationalities where you need to speak that language. If anything, by them being here in the United States, they're going to want to learn English more than having you learn their language here
It's a diversity of different populations here in America, so we should not have to learn everyone's language because they're here in America or allow it to be no communication because we can't understand each other. So, yes, of course, learn English, but I feel that, especially here in Los Angeles, I feel like we, as children at the time, should have learned Spanish as well, because now the biggest population here in Los Angeles is Spanish speaking people
Maurice Lekea
@malekea · 5:00
So there we broke out the same news in French nationally, so that each person, at least if you do not understand one of the national languages, you can at least follow the same news in French. Now the kids are born. They are born abroad. They speak, I don't know, sometimes two, three, or, or all of them languages. And coming to us is, for me, it's unthinkable to have my kids completely turn on their languages and only speak English
Oraida Levi
@TalkswithOraida · 4:15
Hey, Tanya, this is such a good topic, so it's very relatable to home little backstory. So my grandmother used to be a linguist, and her first language was Spanish. And then, you know, we spoke Spanish and French growing up. And the biggest important thing was when my first language was Spanish and my second language was French, and I learned English at school. And one of the biggest things was the fear of losing the art of speaking your roots. Right?
Erica Jean
@HeyItsErica · 3:07
Hi, Tanya. Great topic. And I think it's just beautiful to learn your own native language. It's beautiful because of the root of it, the connectedness of it. As you're learning the language, you're learning the sounds and the rhythms of your people. And so I think it's just always super important to learn one's own culture and become connected in that way. Certainly it's advantageous to learn different languages, especially if you're in a nation, for example, America
Tanya Coles
@MsColes77 · 3:53
And so there's a benefit to doing business and knowing how to speak English versus being bilingual in other well, being multilingual in other languages. But I took three years of Spanish. I think I took a year of French in middle school. I took three years of Spanish in high school. I still remember a lot of the Spanish that I learned. I wished I had continued into college taking Spanish
Tanya Coles
@MsColes77 · 2:29
Thank you, Maurice. I can always count on your input on these types of topics. And thank you so much. I do remember you saying on another swell that I did, that you spoke multiple languages, and I think that that's a beautiful thing. You know, I sometimes wonder, is it easier to want to learn new languages once you've mastered a few, like, you know, several languages already?
Tanya Coles
@MsColes77 · 1:59
It all right. Thank you so much for sharing your upbringing and sharing your experience teaching your children Spanish, that was one of the things with my adult friends. One of the things that they didn't do is that they didn't teach their children when they were little. So now they feel like, well, they're older now. It's going to be more difficult for them to try to learn it at this point