Tag: immigrants
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America is Not an English-Speaking Nation, and We Can’t Expect it to Be.
In the United States, pressure on immigrants to learn English can be unnecessary, unproductive, and even malicious. Before he got sick and moved in with my family, my mother’s father was working on a translation of Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace.” As he read the pages of dense English text, he translated each line into…
