Learning English as a Second Language - Linda Furiya

[OriginalRipndip]

Everyone hear SEARCH FOOD INC ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. IT'S in the related videos maybe.

Illegals are actually the ones being exploited don't fall for propaganda. Do u have any idea what it does to the psyche of undocumented workers to be hunted ? Paranoia. Stigma. They are working harder than most, why are they being punished.? Corporations are taking out ads in Mexico. Why arent they punished? But ppl break into the homes of an immigrant and rip them away from a crying family

[XxxSakura101]

I can't blame them though, if you got placed in xxx country and could have a better life for your family, would you take the risks and move?

[XxxSakura101]

I love legal immigrants, our nation is 98.8% immigrants. I just don't like people breaking our laws and entering illegally. It's not just for our own sake that we have those laws, but for theirs as well. They are often exploited and can't enjoy the same freedom as most people, while legal immigrants thrive alongside everyone else.

[Mottahead]

As a legal immigrant from South America I find it very hard to speak English with fluency.

Even after years of studying English and studying among native speakers I must confess that sometimes I'm pretty fluent and sometimes I'm even amazed at my broken English and strong accent.

It seems like there's a switch to go from my native Brazilian Portuguese to American English and that it gets jammed sometimes.

A second language does not come as naturally as a native one.

[andrewl5201]

dumb cunt

[TheRealmsofChimi]

Sounds like an interesting book, I may just have to pick it up!

[elenaaugusto79]

really interesting!! and very usefull for our classroom

[bongmanding]

I understand what her mom went through those times that she was insecure because she could not speak in English.It's really a big deal if you cannot communicate in English. I am an immigrant myself. I have been here in the US for almost seven years and even a lot of people tell me that I don't really have a problem communicating with them and my English is perfectly normal, somehow I still feel that I am not good enough. I mean still struggle sometimes understanding their words.

[groundzerobuild]

@bongmanding ~English is no longer important in this world!Learn Chinese instead!all business's are moving to China!

[bongmanding]

@groundzerobuild I don't think so! English will still be the medium of communication in a very long time. You're probably just saying this either you're Chinese yourself so the bias is there, or you're just a bitter person.

[XxxSakura101]

@ground zero build uh...no one learns Chinese because English is much more widespread, more countries speak it, and it's already established. The US has by far more business investments than China, so i'm not sure what your talking about there..It's simply cheaper to make somthing in China because they have very low wages, a massive surplus of labor, and a weaker currency.

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[ChineseinCanada]

I read her book about living in China for a few years. Its really good! (although pretty emotionally intense at times)

[loki2504]

I think learning english is not a big deal, for instance people from Holland speak it descently although their native language is dutch.

It really depends on your motivation and invested time. But I think the most interesting language to learn may not be english because there is nothing special about it, everyone knows it... Learning french is harder xDDD

[AstralAbraxas]

I fucking hate french.

[joe415ful1]

@ AstralAbraxas

Yo También

[SlimeTron5000]

No, it isn't (coming from a bilingual). In fact, it deserves a regulation commission so too many humans can't fuck up the pronunciation.

[ReduceYourAccentLA]

Happy New Year 2010

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[kennetskyz]

here in philippines, all of us can speak english !! i think spaeking in english is only normal for us .. were always talikng in english everyday .. and everyone can understand it .

[Kjxx1]

All of you speak English?

here in philippines -> Here in the Philippines

english -> English

spaeking -> speaking

i -> I

talikng -> talking

everyday -> every day

Yeah, right....sigh

[land5566]

加油！！

[tankimlow]

China? How do you know that I'm from China? Man! Please, read more and increase your basic knowledge, you can found Chinese all over the world. If you can't accept the fact that 95% of the Japaneses can't speak English, cry to your mama and stop making noises here you retard. And yes, you prefer Japanese cuz Chinese and Mandarin is too difficult for you

[LittleAngels0400]

Im italian :/

[MurderingCow]

I feel a lot of sympathy for her Mum. When I first moved to the UK, I knew very little english. It was really hard finding a place to stay, and finding work was impossible! At least I was able to stay with friends, and I found english clases at the local college to help me. But I was lucky because I didn't have much stopping me, while this women had to raise and look after her children, as well as hold a job. I'm glad her life got better!

[tankimlow]

Chinese is my first language and English is my second. Honestly, there are lots of Japanese can't speak English, even the basic one. But she speaks it very well.

[SenMuJie]

are you from Taiwan or China? I only ask cause in Taiwan they pronounce the letters G (居), N (嗯), and L (sounds like hello w/o the H, ello) wrong. Jay can sound like 嗟 or 決. If you're from 大陸, my question is "Do they pronounce these letters this way in China?" Really curious, trying to pinpoint if it as a Chinese speaker thing or Taiwanese accent thing.

[tankimlow]

I am from Malaysia. Yes Taiwanese pronounce N as 嗯. Not sure why they did that but I knew this only from the Taiwan drama. I think it is a Taiwan accent.

[ajaaronjoe]

Japanese people think that their language is the best in the entire world and also i reckon that they don't have to learn and speak advance English though!

[wuerges]

Wonderful.

[nightcypha]

I really appreciate her making a book and reading a piece of it out to a crowd. It's funny how most people get ridiculed trying to learn English when other countries help English speakers learn their language without ridicule and constant torment like Americans do others. Ignorance and underline racism in our country is why we're being put under high scrutiny by other countries. Come on people...Immigration built this country.

[SenMuJie]

I noticed that a native English speaker in America will pay more attention to a non-native speaker. Not more attentive, but will criticize the grammar usage and not enunciating consonants. At the same time, the native English speaker will roll over consonants, shorten pronunciations of words by using glottal stops, and speak in fragmented sentences. And yes, immigrants did build this country and helped shape the American English language as we know it today. (Long time, no see. Chinese sentence

[nightcypha]

True, SenMuJie! And we wonder why non natives find it hard to understand a relaxed tongued native speaker. Yet we poke fun at non natives for trying to mimick our sentence or even tonal structure correctly when we are guilty ourselves. Such miscommunication leads to miscommunication.

[jstele]

@nightcypha I agree.

[PopularPinkPrincess]

whats this book?

[pepeYjuana]

Touching. Especially her list of regrets.

[B1K1N1B1K1N1]

drama queen.

[beckyboo900600]

"Whitebread America"...I don't understand. Is this to do with White bread sandwhich/Bento or is it the racist expression? I don't understand racism...I mean...we all live on the same planet!!

Lindas poor mum. If I were her, i'd feel so uncomfortable speaking to people...

[zoetop]

well, thank you for the issue discussed in the video, maybe one day i'll read the book.

[wbotx]

I had a short visit with your father today. A wonderful person. You must be very proud of your parents. Jack Versailles, In.

[bigbuggie5]

This sounds a lot like my mother. She is from Japan and I grew up in the U.S. Many people made fun of my mother as well.

[bryuko]

The subtitle of her book is racist. 'Whitebread' is a racial slur against caucasian people. Slurs like these only contribute more negativity to the world. Thanks, but I'll pass on this book.

[borednow]

lol, when she said "baloney" you an hear somebody laugh in the background

[Calavera1988]

Go Versailles! Go McDonalds and Dairy Queen! Woo-hoo!

[33Sammi32]

maybe her parents should have opened up their cultural boundaries and let their child know the taste of the food of the region they actually lived in a little bit.

[bokualec]

I'm sure the whole book isn't so sad like this; it's just an excerpt. Interesting hearing her experiences though. My grandma was half Japanese and so would've been living overseas some 10~20 years earlier than this woman. My mum said she and her sister would tease my grandma about her English and they'd all laugh together and joke about it.

[angelbaby300]

WOW!! PEOPLE ARE DIENG IN THE WORLD FROM WORLD HUNGER AND YOU AE CRYING BECAUSE YOURE MOM CAN'T SPEAK ENGLISH!! hahaha cry me a river

[kidsfactory]

As for comment of Renedu2 below, I would like to understand exactly what you were indicating when you cited the phrase "cry me a river", which I find particularly insensitive and disrespectful, not to mention poor expression.

Patricia, Paris France

[kidsfactory]

It is not easy to admit that we didn't as young people have the means to imagine the difficulty our non-American parents went through, to integrate because of an inability to speak the language. I grew up hating soap operas and thinking my family members were couch potatoes. My mom watched soap operas on end - and only now after watching this video excerpt, at 47, do I imagine she did that to help her English comprehension,

[RENEDU2]

gee.. cry me a river..ffs

[kidsfactory]

As for comment of Renedu2 below, I would like to understand exactly what you were indicating when you cited the phrase "cry me a river", which I find particularly insensitive and disrespectful, not to mention poor expression.

Patricia, Paris France

[iluvsephiroth]

why r u jumpin on this person?

jessi,united states

[serenityxXxlurv]

why arent you? what insensitive prick sits there and says "you had to leave your country and learn THE MOST DIFFICULT LANGUAGE ON THE PLANET, cry me a fuckin river. I have more difficult problems like my nonexistent cock."???! That's horrid.

Serenity, U.S.A (but born in Canada)

[fukprc]

'cause racist asians are always complaining about racism - and BTW the books title is racist - and BTW it sucks - she writes like shit

[jessman1999]

Your obviously interested in what she has to say on this topic, so why the disrespect? You're a piece of garbage.