Idaho is offering the commerical drivers license test in Mexican Spanish, Serbo-Croatian and Russian. My favorite FMCSA (if you can have one) is:

FMCSA Regulation 391.11 (b)(2) Can read and speak the English language sufficiently to converse with the general public, to understand highway traffic signs and signals in the English language, to respond to official inquiries, and to make entries on reports and records.

How can Idaho be certain that the applicant is able to understand English well enough to drive an 80,000 pound vehicle across America if they are giving the test in other languages?????

What IS Mexican Spanish, anyway?

Sorry for being so late with this. The blackberries are turning and I’ve been spending my “free” time picking and canning…..

By the way – my mother was a LEGAL immigrant. I cannot speak her native German because she felt her children were born in America, we are Americans and refused to speak German even in our home…….

I really could care less what you speak at home or with family. When you are conducting business in the USA it should be in English. No business or government materials should be spending money on multi-language brochures or forms. Interpretation and variation enters in misunderstandings and business failings. One language with one intent. I am surprised we don’t have more businesses in court being sued because their non English informtion was false or confusing.
Standards people – English

How’bout this: http://www.languagepolicy.org/membership/English-Only.ppt