# Why it is important to speak English in the US

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**Created:** [February 17, 2010, 3:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/why-it-is-important-to-speak-english-in-the-us/250390 "2010-02-17T15:47:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 3:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/why-it-is-important-to-speak-english-in-the-us/250390/1 "2010-02-17T15:47:53Z")

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**_Why is it so important to know how to speak English?_**  
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[SIZE=4]I had a bunch of Euros I needed to exchange, so I went to the currency exchange window at the local bank.

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It was a short line. Just one lady in front of me, an Asian lady who was trying to exchange yen for dollars and she was a little irritated.

She asked the teller, "Why it change? Yesterday, I get two huna t dolla fo yen. Today I get hunat eighty? Why it change?"

The teller shrugged his shoulders and said, "Fluctuations".

The Asian lady says, "Fluc you white people, too."

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**Author:** ![kramerbuccs24](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/kramerbuccs24/32/6397_2.png) [@kramerbuccs24](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/kramerbuccs24)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 3:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/why-it-is-important-to-speak-english-in-the-us/250390/2 "2010-02-17T15:51:02Z")

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**Author:** ![MX-5](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mx-5/32/6336_2.png) [@MX-5](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MX-5)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 3:52pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/why-it-is-important-to-speak-english-in-the-us/250390/3 "2010-02-17T15:52:26Z")

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![http://www.photobasement.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/english.jpg](http://www.photobasement.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/english.jpg)

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**Author:** ![88slowmarro](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/88slowmarro/32/6339_2.png) [@88slowmarro](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/88slowmarro)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 5:01pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/why-it-is-important-to-speak-english-in-the-us/250390/4 "2010-02-17T17:01:11Z")

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