Cash,

Don't feel ashamed or bad about not having that ability to do that ( at least for the time being). I think about the many foreigners that are living in my city and I envy many of them know how to speak more than onelanguage. One of my friends who is from Senegal speaks French, Spanish and his tribal Wolof language. To me , as an African-American, I find that to be very intriguing as we as Americans, whether Black Americans or White Americans speak one language of English.

As a kid, I remembered being around primarily Southern Blacks and Whites with a sprinkling of Jewish, Asian and Latin people. Now the ATL and it's outskirts look more like " The Little Big Apple" as one of my other friend from the Brooklyn call it because of the many different people that live here. It's to a point where, I seldom meet a Southerner in my city anymore. They are either from Detroit, New York, Los Angeles or from another country, I'm not joking, (that is why I highly disagree with some people who think that Georgia is just Black and White). Even on certain streets I go one, there is a lot of diversity on it. I see a little Chinatown,a Little Mexico , little Africa.It's a beautiful,educational thing to see.

But as more and more immigrants come here, I felt that I need to learn another language. As a kid I learned a little German, French and Spanish. Right now, my last class is Advanced Spanish. As an American I feel that I need to learn another language. I remembered entering a beauty shop and there was a brother and sister, Latinos from Cuba. In Spanish, the brother said that he wanted a hair cut. Nobody could understand what he said until his sister translated it for him. I go to a Black beauty shop. Some Black beauty shops do White hair, but mine did not. there were two barrier in this: his Spanish and his hair. My beauticians did the best that they could with his hair and it came out nice( Thank god). Georgia in recent years have acquired a high Latino community. I mean what if I'm put in emergency and the man only spoke Spanish or something else, what can I do? What id I go to another country? I would like to know where I'm going or what the person is saying.

Most of the men, I've dated where Black men from other countries and I've always liked how they always spoke more than one language. I'm dating a guy from Mali.He Speaks French and Arabic. What if we got married and had kids by him? I would definately want my kid(s) to experience his culture and to speak his languages( if he isn't too lazy to teach it that is). I would like for them to learn this because not only will the children is a part of him, but our would isn't Black and White. Georgia isn't Black and White anymore, it's multicultural. Not only would it be a good thing to learn about other people, but to learn other languages so will know what to say or do shall you be put in pressruing situation like the one I witnessed at the beauty shop.

After Spanish, I think I want to take French, German, Arabic or maybe some Wolof, if I ever come across a Senegalese person who speaks the Wolof language.