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Is America more english or spanish speaking? (jlai.lu)

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Hi fedi,

Non US here, I just read an article about how there are whole cities/neighborhoods that are only spanish speaking in the US, and how lots of places are already using both languages (administrations, hospitals, transports).

Is spanish so widespread in whole US or only is big cities/southern states?

It was an article about how there is no official language in the US and how it would be easier to recognize english and spanish as official languages.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Spanish is the most common in big cities, especially in certain neighborhoods. Along the southern boarder there is a lot of Spanish spoken. Most services have Spanish as an option for things like paperwork and phone services. You don't need to know Spanish, but it can be very helpful depending on where you live or what career you have.

Some facts:

About 13.7% of the population speaks Spanish at home. Spanish is the 2nd most spoken language, infact there are more native speakers of Spanish than all other languages combined. Spanish is the most common second language learned in school.