What about Russia?

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

Yeah but the DC area has a far greater spanish speaking population than russian...

It can be my third language...

[42]

Yeah but the DC area has a far greater spanish speaking population than russian...

My brother lives in the D.C. area and he speaks Russian. And since I don't personally know any spanish speakers in the D.C. area. I will erroneously assume that your statement is false. Cause we all know that personal knowledge count more than what anyone else says.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

Alaska, directly bordering on Russia, is much more likely to have Russian speakers coming in than Spanish speakers, when the closest major source of Spanish Speakers is Idaho.

However, to prove 42's point we can use my family. My wife and Father-in-law speak Russian. The only one who speaks Spanish is my brother-in-law. My brother and his wife both speak Korean, too, which makes that language more prevelant than Spanish. Also, I have a sister-in-law who speaks Arabic, and my father-in-law speaks Finnish as well. My borther speaks Tagalog. Which means that Spanish is no more prominent than Arabic, Finnish, or Tagalog in the region.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

Execept the prevelence of spanish speakers is huge thanks to the many thousands of Salvadorians, Colombians and Mexicans who have emigrated to this region...

[Oseleon]

Yep!  Spanish would be more valid in this day and age and in the America to come.  

I predict we will be making closer ties with Latin America, now that most of Western Euorope has demonstrated that they have little in common with us anymore.  

As to Russia, It is a shame that Putin has taken the country so many steps backwards as of late.  But i still have hope that the Russian Republic will REALLY be a republic one day.  A Repubic of that Size and potential, with Eastern Europian values... WOuld be a value to us.  

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

At work there are about 3 Russian speaking workers there.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

Execept the prevelence of spanish speakers is huge thanks to the many thousands of Salvadorians, Colombians and Mexicans who have emigrated to this region...

I refuse to accept the several dozen Spanish-speaking workers who gather at the corners near my class as any sort of admissable evidence to this discussion.

[MsFish]

I know of many people in the DC area who speak Wolof, but none who speak Spanish.  Therefore you should learn Wolof instead.  Nengadef!

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

What ze heck is Wolof?

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

a quick google search could have told you

Society-WOLOF

The Wolof constitute a large ethnic group located mainly in the western
part of the former French West African colony of Senegal, and extending
southward into The Gambia--a former British colony. Wolof (Ouolof
in the standard French orthography) is the name by which the people
refer to themselves, and the label commonly used in scholarly publications.
But a large number of orthographic variants occur in the literature,
ranging from Chelofes, Guiolof, and Iolof, to Joloffs, Valaf, and
Yuloff.

The indigenous language is also called Wolof. It is classified within
the Northern Branch of the West Atlantic subfamily of the Niger-Congo
language family. The most closely related languages are Serer and
Fulbe (Fulani) (Greenberg 1966: 7-8, 25; Voegelin 1977: 28-29). The
Lebu, a separate ethnic group centered in the Cap Vert peninsula of
Senegal, speak a distinct Wolof dialect. The Wolof language is rapidly
becoming the national vernacular of Senegal. Members of other ethnic
groups are increasingly learning Wolof as a second language, especially
in the urban areas. It was recently estimated that 80 percent of Senegalese
speak Wolof

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

but I didn't WANT to do a google search, I have to have a review written in between calls in the next couple hours.