+1 to this thread. I cannot stand it when people look at us like we are mad because we want them to speak english. I can understand if you just moved here and you are trying to learn, but seriously, the people I meet have been here have lived here for years. Back in Texas, I went to a bank to cash my paycheck. Well I went up to the cashier, who started speaking Spanish to me. I can speak spanish, amoung a few other languages, but I choose not to. Well, she started speaking Spanish, and I stoped her and told her to speak English. She had the never to tell me that I should learn spanish and then preceded to curse me out in Spanish. WTF?? Funny how people make assumptions that others don't know a language because they have a preference to speak a certin language.