Reblogging: 14 Maps That Show What Languages People Speak In The U.S.

Taken from:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/hunterschwarz/14-maps-that-show-what-languages-people-speak-in-the-us

The Census Bureau maps show the areas of the United States where large concentrations of people speak a language at home other than English.

posted on August 6, 2013 at 3:09pm EDT

Hunter Schwarz

BuzzFeed Staff

An interactive map released by the Census Bureau Tuesday tracks where in the country there is a high concentration of people who speak a language other than English at home. According to the data, 58% of U.S. residents age 5 and older speak English “very well” and also speak a language other than English at home.

Nearly two-thirds of people who speak a language other than English at home speak Spanish (37.6 million). The third most-spoken language is Chinese (2.9 million), followed by Tagalog (1.6 million), Vietnamese (1.4 million), French (1.3 million), German (1.1 million), and Korean (1.1 million).

That state with the highest percentage of people who speak another language…

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Karen Hopkins (1949-) was born and raised, California. At seventeen she moved to Talcahuano, Chile. After completing her university degree she moved to London, England to work for Pan American Airlines and traveled extensively throughout Europe, the Middle East, and India. For twenty-six years Karen taught Spanish and English as a Second Language in a variety of settings including a private school in Panama, the "most remote school in the United States" in Ticaboo, Utah, the Navajo Reservation, and on a teacher exchange in Hermosillo, Mexico. Karen and her husband traveled extensively in Mexico and Central America, spending many summers in the highlands of Chiapas, Guatemala, and El Salvador . Karen currently lives and writes in Arizona near the Mexican border.

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