[ExI] sign along spokane river

BillK pharos at gmail.com
Fri Nov 27 14:11:43 UTC 2015


On 27 November 2015 at 03:29, spike wrote:
> Of all oddball things.  In California we have plenty of places where signs have Spanish
> along with English on billboards, and some areas where it is Spanish only.  But in Spokane
> Washington today I saw a sign in what looks like Russian.  We expect our Russian immigrants
> to know English.  Apparently sometimes they don’t.  I wouldn’t have guessed they needed a sign.
>

PS.  I believe the requirement for immigrants to know English (or the
weird variant that Americans speak) :) is only required for
naturalization. You can be a non-English speaking immigrant so long as
you don't apply for citizenship.

BillK




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