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>I understand your point and the sadness of losing a language of your ancestry. Kind of like my people lost Yiddish (that was spoken in my home when I was growing up).

One of the biggest regrets of my life (and I think many of my generation) is that I never learned Yiddish. My mother spoke it with her parents and (to some extent) with her sister. I don't think my father spoke much, even though his parents were the immigrants. It was never spoken in the house - all I ever learned were a couple of phrases.

I've spoken with many of my Spanish and Vietnamese co-workers and it seems that they are repeating my experience. The third generation is losing the mother tongue - although I think not quite to the extent the we did.



>Funny that my daughters also took French and can get by in it. But both now admit that they would be better off taking Spanish. This is why I am learning both Spanish and French :)