The number of people in the US ____ speak a second language has tripled in the last 40 years, ____ a report by the U.S. Census Bureau. About 68 million Americans ____ a second language ____ home – 1 in 5 citizens. Spanish, spoken by 41 million people, is ____ the most spoken second language. Hispanics ____ the largest minority group in the US. Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin) is the second ____ important foreign language in the US. Since the Gold Rush in the middle of the 19th century, Chinese immigrants have been ____ into the country in large numbers. Today, there are ____ 5 million Chinese Americans. Other important second languages ____ Tagalog, a Philippine dialect, Vietnamese and Arabic. The most spoken European language is French.

America’s Second Languages

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