Immigrant Daily

What? Latinos are learning English? I am shocked.

Pew Hispanic Center study shows that nearly all Hispanic adults born in the United States of immigrant parents report they are fluent in English. By contrast, only a small minority of their parents describe themselves as skilled English speakers. This finding of a dramatic increase in English-language ability from one generation of Hispanics to the next emerges from a new analysis of six Pew Hispanic Center surveys conducted this decade among a total of more than 14,000 Latino adults. The surveys show that fewer than one-in-four (23%) Latino immigrants reports being able to speak English very well. However, fully 88% of their U.S.-born adult children report that they speak English very well. Among later generations of Hispanic adults, the figure rises to 94%. Reading ability in English shows a similar trend.

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Clearly this should silent those who spend their days asking the ever infamous question – why don’t they just learn English?  My suggestion to today’s U.S. policymakers would be very similar — Why don’t Americans just learn another language.  After all, in most other countries people often speak more than one language.  In today’s age of globalization, speaking only one language is not really advisable.  Latinos/as are not any different than any other group of immigrants that came to this country – so please stop the ridiculous tirades about the end of our culture and the English language in the U.S.

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