According to the 2000 census, there are 1,643,838 French speakers >= 5 years old, but 2,022,143 Chinese speakers. French is fourth, I think. If you include French Creole, then there are an addtional 453,368 speakers.
The table above doesn’t have anything specific about languages spoken (except Spanish). That may just be because I’m suing OO.org though. In any case, do they make a difference between Mandarin and Cantonese? Or are the all lumped together. If they are, “Chinese” (as a language) should probably be the 3rd most-spoken language.
According to the 2000 census, there are 1,643,838 French speakers >= 5 years old, but 2,022,143 Chinese speakers. French is fourth, I think. If you include French Creole, then there are an addtional 453,368 speakers.
See: http://www.census.gov/population/cen2000/phc-t20/tab06.xls
The table above doesn’t have anything specific about languages spoken (except Spanish). That may just be because I’m suing OO.org though. In any case, do they make a difference between Mandarin and Cantonese? Or are the all lumped together. If they are, “Chinese” (as a language) should probably be the 3rd most-spoken language.
Ok, well, we can conclude that French is a frequently spoken language in the USA. How is that?