You people aren't getting what nick wrote; there is no "official language" for you to force people to learn in the US; you can speak whatever you want. If, for some strange reason, I wished to speak Latin, I could. There is nothing anyone could do to stop me from doing so, and I cannot be descriminated against for that fact.

Also, superwill, watch your language; there's your warning.

There is no official language of the federal government. Establishing English as the official language of the federal government would only relieve the US from obligation of providing papers or multilingual employees to assist others who do not speak English. However, public education is under the jurisdiction of the state, and some have declared English as the official language of the state government. Even cities reserve the power to establish an official language. In states where English is the official language, all state documents are in English and employees are obligated to speak English fluently. Iowa is one, but I don't know of any others, though I highly doubt New York is too. If you attend a private school, you're SOL in all cases.

I didn't mean the US, I meant countries in general.