I don't feel particularly threatened or anything, but let me put it this way. Living in California and seeing more and more corporate advertising being done in

I don't feel particularly threatened or anything, but let me put it this way. Living in California and seeing more and more corporate advertising being done in Spanish (sometimes without even any English) leaves me with some concern. The concern is that some day, people(especially low-skill) will not be able to find a job unless they learn Spanish. Knowing Spanish will be a requirement to be able to compete for customer-facing jobs because they have decided that Spanish speakers should not have to learn English in this country, and that we should cater to them in the way of having documents, signs, etc. in Spanish. There is nothing inherently wrong with that, it's a nice thing. But the effect is that, eventually there is no need to learn English. You live in a community where everyone speaks Spanish already, so every business has to cater to Spanish speakers if they want good sales. So my concern goes out to all the people who grow up in this country who have only learned English, and are no longer at the point of being capable or willing to learn Spanish, who can no longer compete with born Spanish speakers or people who learned it from a young age. If that's the result we want, we should have been teaching Spanish from elementary school. But foreign language learning starts in high school, where you are only required to take a foreign language for 2 years, and it doesn't have to be Spanish.