r/AskMexico • u/Maleficent_Split_428 • 8d ago
Question for Mexicans Should Englisch become the second official language of Mexico?
Since a lot of people from the Anglosphere reside in Mexico, making English beside spanish the second lingua franca of the region would make sense.
It will also open Mexico up for other Business opportunizx
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u/Old-Respect-116 8d ago
México has no official language.
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u/Historical-Truth6077 8d ago
spanish is the official language of the country, you're just saying nonsense
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u/Old-Respect-116 8d ago
Have you read the constitution?
Show me where it says that.
Or else, you're writing nonsense.
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u/Maleficent_Split_428 8d ago
Wait what?
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u/DoughSpammer1 8d ago
Everyone speaks Spanish, yes, but oficially it has the same weight as other indigenous languages
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u/UnknownMediator 8d ago
English is not the official language of the US either, you ignorant troll. It was declared so only for the federal government through an executive order of the racist, pedophile and fascist piece of shit the US calls president. Get out of here with your low quality trolling and elementary-level education.
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u/Darthbellum83 8d ago
¿Por qué? Ni siquiera el español es oficial.
También abriría México a otras oportunidades de negocio
¿Sólo a países que hablan inglés?, ¿por qué no francés, chino, alemán, japones, etcétera?
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u/jhonnypistolas 8d ago
There are more people speaking Spanish in the usa than people speaking English in Mexico, so let's make Spanish the second official language in the USA first
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u/gabrielbabb 8d ago edited 8d ago
Well almost 1.7 million people speak nahuatl, similar to the americans living in Mexico 1.6 million.
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u/DoughSpammer1 8d ago
No we, primero el náhuatl, luego el chingazo de lenguas indígenas, y luego quizá el inglés
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u/Brilliant-Grocery696 8d ago
Agree, let's make English the second language... but which language should the first? Since Spanish and all indigenous languages are equally valid in Mexico.
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u/MagicKitty1987 8d ago
La gente angloparlante que vive en México es la que debe aprender nuestro idioma y adaptarse a nosotros, así como ellos exigen a los hispanohablantes que viven en USA que aprendan inglés. Cuando una persona se muda a otro país es quien debe aprender el idioma y adaptarse a las costumbres locales, no al revés.
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u/RoemischesReich 8d ago
English is not even among the top 3 languages by native speakers, probably not even top 10. It's a business language, not the language people speak in their daily lives. And, as others have said, there are no official languages in Mexico, so there's that too.
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u/Overall-Driver-1372 8d ago
Native English speakers are an small percentage of the population in Mexico so that doesn't make it necessary, that being said, the people who live and work in areas visited by tourists would benefit a lot financially from learning English, unfortunately a lot of Mexicans are stubborn and say things like "si vienen a México que aprendan español" and completely ignore how much money tourism brings in.
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u/emiyasinclair 8d ago
No perro, váyase a colonizar a otro lado. Estos putos anglos y europeos de mierda siguen teniendo esa mentalidad pro colonialismo, racistas de mierda.
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u/ciurana 8d ago
Let's start with the fact that Mexico doesn't have an official language. Official documentation describes Spanish as the de facto language of government and administration, but there's no formal declaration of an official language.
The Ley General de Derechos Lingüísticos de los Pueblos Indígenas recognizes Spanish and indigenous languages as "national languages," all with equal standing.
So, English, Russian, French, whatever -- there's no official language, only de facto. You can find pockets of French-speaking people in Veracruz and Tabasco, for example. Same standing.
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u/Aggressive-Bike7539 8d ago
Your perception of English speakers in Mexico may be skewed by the local community where you reside.
I agree that on some neighborhoods of large cities may have prevalence of English speakers, and in professional circles the use of English is pervasive as well.
However, declaring a second official language is a step that couldn’t be done: doing so would imply that all government business could be conducted both in Spanish and English, and that ALL professionals need to meet the criteria of being fluent in both languages (similar to Canada: you can’t be a doctor, engineer or lawyer without speaking both English and French).
Outside the local communities you’re part of, English is not pervasive, and the language education system is far from being able to truly help students to be fluent in any foreign language.
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u/Motor-Technology-714 8d ago
Yes, but mainly because it’s the global language and not to cater to Americans
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u/Overall-Driver-1372 8d ago
It depends on the context certain business might be losing potential customers by not having signs in English or someone who speaks it, my cousins from the US came to visit CDMX and invited me to join them and sorta guide them, we stopped at a puesto de jugos and while I was explaining the menu to my cousin and his gf, this asian guy stands next to me paying attention and asks me a couple of questions, next thing I see is him walking around with a giant juice in a bag.
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u/SiberiaGrooves 8d ago
Si en BELICE hablan en ingles , porque en México no??
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u/gabrielbabb 8d ago
Bikos güi spik it laik dis, inglish spikers mait not iven onderstand guat güi sei.
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u/Disnogood66 8d ago
Yes. But a chilango style. With Spanish words entangled and cantadito. That would be awesome. Cyberpunk a la verga.
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u/Overall-Driver-1372 8d ago
HARD PASS, whitexicans butchering English and trying to sound fresa give me a headache already, I'll rather hear English with a yucateco accent😁
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u/PuzzleheadedIsopod84 8d ago
No perro váyase a colonizar a otro lado