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Mar
5
2012
Erard, Michael. (2012.January 14) Are we really monolingual? <i>The New York Times</i> [ Sunday Review, The Opinion Page]. Retrieved from: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/opinion/sunday/are-we-really-monolingual.html?
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Since 1980, the United States Census Bureau has asked: “Does this person speak a language other than English at home? What is this language? How well does this person speak English?” The bureau reports that as of 2009, about 20 percent of Americans speak a language other than English at home. This figure is often taken to indicate the number of bilingual speakers in the United States.
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Nonetheless, to better map American language abilities, the census should ask the same question that the European Commission asked in its survey in 2006: Can you have a conversation in a language besides your mother tongue?
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Aug
17
2011
"An international public opinion poll shows a dramatic lack in trust of democratic institutions and international companies" (November 8, 2002).
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