60 percent of New Yorkers speak a language other than English in their homes

Albor Ruiz writes in the New York Daily News that New York City

is a city where nearly 40% of the residents are foreign-born, over 60% speak a language other than English at home, and about 20% — or 1,480,072 — of all registered voters are naturalized citizens or the U.S.-born children of immigrants.

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Good or bad?

Elizabeth Lee writes at Voice of America News:

The U.S. Census Bureau says more than half the adults in the Los Angeles area between 18 and 34 years old speak a language other than English at home - compared to 25 percent nationwide.

...Many immigrant parents are passing their native language on to their American-born children, says University of California Los Angeles professor Raul Hinojosa.

“I’ve definitely seen a sea change in the last ten years,” he said.

Hinojosa says historically, the children and grandchildren of immigrants would stop speaking the parents’ native language. But now the opposite is true. The next generation is encouraged to maintain the language of their immigrant parents.

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