數據顯示 中文成爲美國第二大外語

Chinese is the second most spoken foreign language in the United States only after Spanish, CBS Los Angeles reported, citing a survey by 24/7 Wall Str,. a widely-quoted Delaware company.

哥倫比亞廣播公司洛杉磯分社援引《華爾街24/7》的一項調查報道稱，中文現在已經成爲美國的第二大外語，僅次於西班牙語。

The research reviewed data from the U.S. Census Bureau's (UCB's) 2015 American Consumer Survey on languages spoken most often at home, while considered data of UCB on the ancestry of state residents.

該項研究查閱了美國人口普查局2015年《美國消費者家庭最常用語言調查》的數據，同時還參考了美國人口普查局關於各州居民祖先的數據。

According to the results, close to 40 million U.S. residents speak Spanish at home, followed by 2.1 million Chinese speakers. Tagalog, Vietnamese, French, Arabic, and Korean are each spoken by over 1 million people nationwide.

結果顯示，近4000萬美國人在家中講西班牙語，有210萬人在家中說中文。在全國範圍內，說塔加路語、越南語、法語、阿拉伯語和韓語的人數均超過了100萬。

At the state level, German is the most commonly spoken language among the 50 states after English and Spanish, with 11 states. A total of seven states speaking Vietnamese most frequently.

而在州這一層面，除英語和西班牙語外，在美國50個州中說得最多的就是德語（11個州）。而說越南語的州有7個。

After English and Spanish, Chinese is the third most spoken language in Arkansas, Maryland, New Jersy, New York and Pennsylvania.

在阿肯色、馬里蘭、新澤西、紐約和賓夕法尼亞等州，中文是排在英語和西班牙語之後第三常用語言。

In California, Tagalog, a language common in the Philippines, is the most spoken foreign language except for Spanish, with 832,024 residents, a whopping 2.1 percent of people, using it in the state, the report of CBS Los Angeles said.

而據哥倫比亞廣播公司報道稱，塔加路語（菲律賓一種常見語言）是加州僅次於西班牙語的第二大外語，共有832024名居民使用該種語言，約佔該州人口的2.1%。