On the last occasion of Barak Obama's pandering for the latino vote he
clearly stated that Americans should learn to speak Spanish. Maybe an
appeal to him directly would be rewarded with support extracted from
unwilling taxpayers. But, in view of the illegal immigration and the
consequences of the failure of my government to protect our citizens
from them and to preserve those government (taxpayer) provided
services for citizens alone and that same government's failure to even
make a good effort to control our own borders against the lawbreakers
who, just incidentally, are predominantly Spanish (not English)
speakers.
You might also appeal to the Mexican government for support. It is
pretty clearly the policy of the Mexican government to do all that
they can (short of providing armed escort across the border into the
US) to illegal aliens. They might want to prevent visible traces of
contact but following initial contact you might be surprised to find
anonymous support suddenly available to you.
While your spiel on the background and the dire situation you hyped to
elicit sympathy to your cause may have mis-fired. In my case you've
done just the opposite. Should such a very specifically targeted book
store fail then good riddance. Could it be that the constituency to
whom they might have provided service is so used to freeloading that
they don't pony up their own money for books? Or, could it be that
they don't want to learn English but hope to gain such wide acceptance
for Spanish that then needn't learn English. Ever! ?? Currently
just about every automated voice attendant invites "Numero dos para
Espanol" already. We'll know that the tide has truly turned when the
entire announcement is in some foreign (alien?) lingo and only lapses
into English to say "Number two (or three or four) for English"! If
the bookstore goes out of business, it won't necessarily be true of
the books. Amazon and Barnes & Noble and Borders are just a few
clicks away.
Many years ago I learned some Spanish and some French with the hope
that it might be useful if ever I visited places where those were the
official languanes. That has proved to be the case. The Spanish has
served me well over the course of decades of vacations by auto touring
and small boat cruising in and round Mexico. The French helped me
navigate hotels and restaurants, primarily in the province of Quebec,
on my many auto trips across Canada.
It was not then and is not now my intent to rely on any foreigh
language to navigate in my own country where English is the language
and the homeland is the United States of America.
The rant being over for the moment, I'm not aware of any such
template. Bookstore software would tend to be very specific and very
expensive. For the good stuff, someone had to pay a bunch of money to
get it done. I doubt that anyone is giving it away. However, you
might try google and search on various combinations of the terms
you've already used in your post. Be sure to include the word "free"
in a few of your searches. Another place that probably wouldn't turn
up in a google search but that might have something you could use is
www.simtel.com Lots of people (used to) post freebies and shareware
there on just about everything.
HTH
