"Learn the language."
I can't understand most southerners or Brits, even though they say they're speaking English. What good is it to "learn the language" and speak English if most other English speaking people can't understand what you're saying?

"You will be welcomed with open arms, regardless of your nationality, race, color or creed. Always have been, always will be."
Never have been and probably never will be! Read American history, OS-L.