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From http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/language-diversity-and-english-proficiency-united-states

Language Diversity and English Proficiency in the United States
By Jeanne Batalova and Jie Zong
November 11, 2016

While a record 64.7 million people ages 5 and older in the United States spoke a language other than English at home in 2015, a growing share of them are also fully proficient in English. Sixty percent of those speaking a foreign language at home were fully proficient in English in 2015, up from 56 percent in 1980—even as immigration levels rose significantly.

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