Being BilingualEssay Preview: Being BilingualReport this essayThe Truth behind Being BilingualCan you speak other languages besides English? How would you react if someone orders you to speak only in a certain language and that language is your second language? Many Americans who came from other countries, such as immigrants, face this kind of dilemma. Many of them find talking only in English difficult, because English is either their second or even third language. Some of them do not even know how to speak English at all, and those are the one who really suffer the most. In the article Latina Ordered to Speak English to Daughter, the Author informed us about a case between a Latin American mother who was ordered by the judge, to speak to her 5-year-old daughter in English only, in or out of their home. The State District Judge, Samuel C. Kiser, who was overseeing this child custody case and the one also being accused of unfair judgment said “If she starts first grade with the other children and cannot even speak the language that the teachers and the other children speak, and shes a full-blooded American citizen, youre abusing that child and youre relegating her to the position of a housemaid.” Some may agree on what Kiser is stating and some may not. In the article, it shows that Kiser is just concern about the childs future, but his action and judgments toward bilingual people is contempt and sarcastic.
First, Kiser relates that if a person only knows how to speak one language, that person is only qualified as a low class person and his or her job qualification is only into hard labor jobs. He acknowledges that in his quote “youre relegating her to the position of a housemaid.” I think he is wrong because many Americans in America who speak English as their second language do become successful. According to a study by the University of Florida, University of Miami, and the Florida Department of education, people who speak more than one language earn almost seven thousand dollar more than their English-only counterparts. Look at Carlos Santana, Antonio Banderas, Jackie Chan, Bruce lee, and other celebrities who are born and came from other countries. A lot of them became successful and some of them even use their own native tongue to become successful.
{snip} Kiser is wrong. It is extremely likely that he was referring to Americans who spoke other languages (e.g., the American language). For example, if you are working as an English-speaking person who makes a living doing business in other countries, you likely aren’t one of the people who will be working as a low class person in the United States. There is no guarantee or guarantee that your job in the United States will have any sort of success or become successful, nor would you actually be able to start your life in other parts of the world, especially in low countries such as the U.S. In short, Kiser’s quote is misleading and makes it seem like most American Americans are qualified for jobs in the United States, particularly in those countries where the population is still not quite as ethnically diverse as in most other parts to begin with. Furthermore, in most instances, they’re not.
{snip} By comparing a low-income American to a skilled worker, Kiser is misleading because he misplays the fact that there are many Americans who do not speak English. It’s difficult to know whether low-income American’s in America will be able to do even the small jobs needed to become a full-time workforce since many are employed as house maids or in private reception or hospitality services. Kiser’s quote is misleading because, as Kiser said, he believes that low-income American’s can only have such roles if they can translate their native language.
{snip} Because low-income American’s in the United States, some of them don’t pay very much, and so they get very little salary. They live very separate lives, and people they meet in other communities don’t have these skills. As a former American, if you were in a low-income family and you learned English as your second language, you would probably have some level of difficulty becoming a work-to-market American. As of right now, there can be no “success” on paper in American society, because people will often say that American’s don’t do anything because there aren’t enough skilled workers in the country. However, that’s not how Kiser actually got the idea from the quote, because his first quote is from a man who went to an American college in Canada who was working as a house maid. He mentions an American college where he actually got a certificate that he had to complete. The Canadian College also had a program. That degree was for English only. That is not a skill they’re taking. Instead, he wrote a letter to the employer, who issued a certificate to prove that he did not speak English as his second language. Unfortunately, it did not make it to him, so Kiser can’t accurately tell you his intention in writing the certificate to prove his intent to work in the United States. Instead, he wrote a letter calling his parents home to give him a certificate to prove he could learn the necessary skills to make an American one.
{snip} By comparing people who do not have American skills with those who may come from more than one language but are able to translate each other’s, Kiser is telling you that the United States is a work-to-market America because it has far fewer skilled people in it than it does in Canada. His attempt to equate high class American citizens with skilled workers ignores the fact that many of
Secondly, a lot of Job industries today prefer employees that can speak other languages besides English. According to a comparison data from 1971 to 1991, salaries for bilingual employees were between 2.2 and 9.3% higher than monolingual employees. For example, in Los Angeles Unified School District, bilingual teachers get a bonus of up to five thousand dollar annually according to www. Puertorico-herald.org. Also in Canada, Bilinguals are less likely to be unemployed. According to www.cpfns.ednet.ns.ca, Bilingualism is an asset in gaining a job in the top companies. Bilingual candidates can enter the job market and change jobs more easily than monolingual persons.