Since World War Two, especially in the last few decades of the
20th century, large groups of foreigners have come and settled in the United
States. The (11) is that many Americans speak a foreign
language at home. Today, one in seven Americans speaks a language (12)
English. Spanish is the leading foreign language spoken by 17 million
Americans. All together, 31.8 million Americans speak 329 foreign languages in
the (13) . That means there is an increase of 34 percent in
foreign language usage since 1980. Asian languages are used by 14 percent of
foreign language speakers. That (14) the new wave of
immigrants from Asian countries (15) India, Japan, Korea and
the Philippines. However, fewer European languages are heard in American
families than before.