Hi Everyone,
This blog is way overdue. This is what I mean.
You know, I understand why people want to move to Canada and become Canadians. We have a lot to offer. Like a great health care system and a broad selection of places to live. Mountains, prairies, cities oh my. Next to Russia, Canada is the second largest land mass and it is a melting pot of cultures and ethnicities. What I don’t understand is why people who move here, most of them by choice, choose not to learn one of our two national languages. Why do so many people move to Ontario, a prodominently English speak province, and never learn how to speak English?
Okay some people can barely speak English, or as I like to say can speak, “Forty-Seven and a Half Sticks of English” because the words, “oh”or “yea” are, in my opinion, universal half-words that even half-witted five year-olds, understand. And I have to tell you I have a really hard time using the hand and foot method of translating the most basic sentences that people who have lived in Canada for longer than seven and a half months should understand.
If English is the language of business and people who will never live or perhaps even visit an English speaking country learn how to speak English well, why can’t the people who move here? This is especially true if they moved here by choice! Wouldn’t it make sense to learn how to communicate with people in all areas of life? To me it does. To me it would just make life easier. And when I say make life easier, I mean my life and the lifes of those that people need to communicate with.
Being dependent on what someone assumes is needed or wanted, is dumb and stupid. But people hand over their lives and the lives of their children, all the time wondering why things didn’t work out the way they wanted to or were ripped off. Just in case anyone needs to be reminded, being ripped off, or having someone else assume what you need or want only makes ones life harder. Why do people do that is beyond me.
Before I began to write this blog, I watched a YouTube video titled, “How Portugal Successfully Tackled It’s Drug Crisis,”and there are two people , one former heroin addict and one current heroin addict, who both speak English better than some people who have in Canada for years. Now if that isn’t embarrassing I don’t know what is!
Have a Happy Canada Day everyone and as always, thank you for reading, A. Rebels’ Rant! ;D
P.S. For anyone who is interested, I wrote and edited this blog under my allocated time by 20 minutes.
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