The children of immigrants tend to be bilingual and proficient in English, "by the third generation, the original language is lost in the majority of immigrant families".
移民的孩子往往会说两种语言,而且精通英语,“到了第三代,大多数移民家庭都丧失了原来的语言。”
The 1990 Census revealed that "a majority of immigrants from each of the fifteen most common countries of origin spoke English 'well' or 'very well' after ten years of residence."
1990年的人口普查显示:“来自15个最常见的原籍国的大多数移民在居住10年后,英语水平为‘好’或‘非常好’。”
Because they are composed of native English speakers deliberately placed together with recent immigrants, they tend to be more ethnically and economically balanced.
因为这些人中既有英语母语者,也有新移民,他们被特意安排在一起,因此在种族和经济问题上更加平衡。
Senator Lodge continued. "A literacy test will bear very lightly, if at all, upon English-speaking immigrants or Germans,Scandinavians and French.
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The United States Department of Education recently launched a free Web site designed to help immigrants learn English.
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They were making fun of themselves and other immigrants who did not speak English well.
VOA: special.2009.07.19
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