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There's way more than two languages: http://www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/language/ http://www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/language/ If you live in a larger urban a
by xradionut 14y ago
There's way more than two languages: http://www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/language/ http://www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/language/
If you live in a larger urban area in the US, odds are that you can encounter several dozen languages in a day.
- rmc 14y agoYes, clearly there are many different languages spoken in a large, populous country like the USA. However that's not at all like the European Union which has to publish all EU Directives in 23 languages, and each country has 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 official languages for their region. In the USA, English is the lingua franca, and official stuff can be done in English. There is no language that you can use all over the EU that will work in all (or sometimes any) official capacity.
- eli_gottlieb 14y agoSeveral dozen? Probably only in New York. Three to five separate languages per day, as you would encounter in any other moderately multicultural/multinational locale? Yeah, any large urban area will do that.