I am interested particularly in Non - Hispanic Americans who speak Spanish (or at least enough to 'get by').
Is America becoming a bilingual country, now..is is possible to get by with just Spanish? Are non hispanic Americans accomodating to Spanish speakers..
I'm interested in both answers from personal experiance / opinion and also official statistics (if they exist)
2007-05-31 08:03:52 · 5 answers · asked by Kraljica Katica 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Just..to add for those who got thumbs down.. I don't give thumbs down on my qs unless someone gave a rude answer.. So they weren't from me!
2007-06-01 15:00:10 · update #1
eeh - I dunno, but I'm fully bilingual and i'm a white guy from louisiana. :)
**whoever thumbs-downed me can lick my ballz because she said she wanted the answer as well as personal comments, too!*
I also think that everyone else here is retarded because she isn't asking about how many hispanics or spanish speakers there are; she said she was interested in non-hispanic americans speaking spanish....... and i am a perfect example! AND - I only know about three people that speak as well as I do and I know tons of people in new york city, new orleans, houston, dallas, los angeles and miami (I travel a lot)...... so i'm guessing not too many as of yet.
2007-05-31 08:11:33 · answer #1 · answered by Jared 3 · 2⤊ 4⤋
English is my first language and I am not Hispanic. I am actively learning Spanish. I've been studying it for the past two years and I know enough to have a basic conversation, though my grammar would be no where near perfect. I know about twenty conjugated forms of each verb. So I am on my way to knowing it.
2007-05-31 08:35:25 · answer #2 · answered by mcc123 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
9.37% - approximately.
EDIT: Hey, that's a pretty good estimate. I don't understand why people have given me a -1 for it!
Speakers of Spanish in the United States
New Mexico (823,352) 43.27%
California (12,442,626) 34.72%
Texas (7,781,211) 34.63%
Arizona (1,608,698) 28.03%
Nevada (531,929) 22.80%
Colorado (878,803) 19.10%
Florida (3,304,832) 19.01%
New York (3,076,697) 15.96%
New Jersey (1,294,422) 14.90%
Illinois (1,774,551) 13.94%
Connecticut (371,818) 10.63%
Utah (253,073) 10.45%
Rhode Island (111,823) 10.35%
Oregon (343,278) 9.56%
Idaho (123,900) 8.88%
District of Columbia (47,258) 8.53%
Washington (526,667) 8.48%
Kansas (220,288) 8.06%
plus all the other states where people don't speak Spanish . . .
Do the sums!
2007-05-31 08:08:03 · answer #3 · answered by JJ 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
30 million people (or 12% of the population) in 2005
2007-05-31 08:26:05 · answer #4 · answered by B@M-B@M 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That's a good question eh!!
I speak english and spanish
2007-05-31 08:08:21 · answer #5 · answered by ♡¢υρρу¢αкєѕ♡ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋