Japanese users are most comfortable with Japanese-language menus and input (although recently younger Japanese bi-lingual users would follow English-language Facebook updates).
Professor Colin Baker from the University of Bangor, an expert on bi-lingual education, says those working in the field have no doubt that bi-lingual children have an advantage over their monolingual peers.
Daimaru Department Store has embarked on a hiring spree for sales staff who speak Chinese, and hotel restaurants are hiring bi-lingual waiters: The Chinese are coming, the Chinese are coming, with big wallets.
Her efforts at a local church and with the Colorado Muslim Society resulted in the creation of a Spanish-bilingual CERT team with more than 60 members and a bi-lingual Arabic CERT team that can communicate in Farsi, Urdu, and Somali.