1.0 link 154875 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-cubias/sprechen-zie-deutsch-did_b_154875.html Many Americans take great satisfaction, sometimes bordering on maniacal pride, in claiming that their European ancestors came here and learned English quickly. According to some, these immigrants' boots were still wet from the spray of the Atlantic when they ditched German, Swedish, or Dutch. The thinking is that European immigrants rapidly mastered English in a sink-or-swim environment that demanded that they leave their mother tongues behind. The follow-up to this assertion is inevitably, "Why can't Latin American immigrants do the...

]]> 2009-01-02T15:56:00-05:00