Should Immigrants Learn English Language

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I think that immigrants should learn how to speak English, because if you going to stay in America, you need to learn English because majority of the people in the US speak English. I think it would be cool to be able to speak multiply of different languages. Living in America is a privileged not a right. It has always been an issue, many immigrants still do not know the basic and key valuable words in the English vocabulary. According to the U.S Census Bureau, “In 2012, 44 percent of the foreign-born population age 5 and older who arrived in the United States in 2000 or later reported high English-language speaking ability,” which is only 35% and 9.6% could not speak it at all. Many problems arise with way less than half being able to speak

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