Comment by Retric
Comment by Retric 13 hours ago
~47 million Americans aren’t native English speakers having immigrated from a non English speaking country.
Comment by Retric 13 hours ago
~47 million Americans aren’t native English speakers having immigrated from a non English speaking country.
By coming from different country their native language (IE what language they heard as infants) more closely resembles that country than America. Note I said 47 million and there are more than 47 million immigrants.
There are also some native born Americans to immigrants who also don’t have English as their first language and People born in China whose first language is English, but that’s ever smaller refinements on a specific estimate.
Who cares if they're native English speakers or not, as long as they can converse in the language?