In the United States it is reported that 55.4 million people spoke another language other than English. Bilingualism only gets more common as the years pass. In 1980 only 11 percent of Americans spoke more than one language at home. Many families, strive to live in a bilingual home, because it is said that Bilingualism is the future of America. It keeps alive cultures, and is known as a natural resource. It also enhances a person social sensitivity, problem solving, and rule-discovery tasks. Eighteen percent of the population is bilingual, this is not counting the children under 5 who weren’t surveyed, or the people who use another language everyday, but speak english at home, so roughly twenty percent of Americans are bilingual. The languages
