School-age children who speak a language other than English at home are one of the fastest-growing populations.
Ninety-seven percent of third generation and higher Hispanics living in Southern California actually prefer to speak English at home.
Almost one in four pupils in Arizona speaks a language other than English at home - and a large majority of these are Spanish speakers.
The states with the largest percentage of citizens speaking a language other than English at home are California, New Mexico, Texas, New York and Arizona.
But although older members of the Cocolo community still speak Caribbean English at home, most have lost their ancient mother tongue and are monolingual in Spanish.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2006 American Community Survey, approximately 80 percent -- or 223.2 million people -- of Americans use only English at home.
Some 20% of the intake are on free school meals, an indicator of poverty often linked with poor academic performance, and 20% do not speak English at home.
The youngest of five siblings all with American-sounding first names like Phyllis and Sidney Tsujihara grew up speaking English at home, even though his parents could speak Japanese.
Under the proposals, parents will be required to take responsibility for their foreign-born children learning English at home, and being able to speak English will be made mandatory in a greater number of public sector jobs.
He returned to Britain and died in his community's very English home at Mirfield in Yorkshire.
Spanish is by far the most popular non-English language spoken at home with roughly 34 million speakers nationwide.
Today most young Indians speak only English or are bilingual in English and Afrikaans, though they may continue to chat at home in a kind of pidgin English larded with Indian and Zulu.
Today, the sad reality is that if you're born poor, if your parents didn't go to college, if you don't know your father, if English isn't spoken at home then the odds are stacked against you.
Nabi's big break came when he was invited to spend three months at the home of English cricket, Lord's, in 2007 as part of the young player program run by the Marylebone Cricket Club -- which governed the sport until the advent of the International Cricket Council in 1993.
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Although he is a Welsh speaker and his wife Lisa has learned the language, Mr Jones said their children learned English first because that was the language at home.
It is also increasingly helpful for any French person aspiring to work in the restaurant or hotel industry at home to have some English working in Britain for a year is a good way of picking up the language.
He comes over well at home and (speaking excellent English) abroad.
Defeat away to England was the only blot on that campaign, which was decided when the unfancied Welsh beat the English by a single point at their temporary Wembley home.
After settling back in Brazil as an executive for a paper company, Martins began teaching English informally to colleagues from his day job at his home at night after work.
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''If anyone remembers seeing Mr English at the weekend whether in town or at his home address, alone or with others, they should call us as that information could assist the inquiry.
In one moment I was at home with family and friends dreaming of studying English, of becoming a schoolteacher.
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The paper said the soldier was arrested at his home in Tamworth, in the central English county of Staffordshire, where he was on leave following the war.
Dimitar Berbatov replaced Park but he had barely had a touch when Messi put the game beyond the English champions as he rose unmarked at the far post to head home Xavi's teasing 70th-minute cross.
And the church's role at home has implications for the communion: can an English church that is steadily disestablishing itself retain any natural place as a pacesetter for much bigger churches abroad?
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Scottish students studying at home do not pay tuition fees while some 22, 000 English students in Scotland do.
In both America and Britain, some feel that, whatever people speak at home, priority should go to making sure that children know English well.
"I talk Spanish at home, except with my brothers, with them I speak English, " says Adriana, a teenager at Bell High School in East Los Angeles, California.
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