Latinos Lose Language Over Time
KGUN 9 TV News
9/13/06

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Study: Latinos Lose Language Over Time.

Myrna Membrila
KGUN 9 TV News

A new study contradicts a popular belief that immigration is leading to a bilingual society.
It finds that the longer hispanic families live in the U.S., the less fluent they become in Spanish and English becomes their dominant language.
The Princeton and U.C.-Irvine study says only one out of every 20 of their great-grandchildren will speak fluent spanish.

Posted: Wednesday, September 13, 2006