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From http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2008/12/09/20081209speakspanish1209.html

Study rebuts perceptions of migrants' English use
Immigrants in 1800s avoided new language
by Daniel González
December 9, 2008

Joseph Salmons, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has done a study that indicates that many German immigrants who arrived in the 1800s didn't learn English and that their children and grandchildren often didn't learn English, either. The findings probably apply to other waves of immigrant groups of the late 1800s and early 1900s, Salmons said.

Other research shows that Latino immigrants in more recent decades are learning English quickly and that, by the third generation, speak only English.

"A lot of the stereotypes apply much better to German immigrants of the 19th century than they do to the Mexican immigrants in the Southwest today," said Salmons, a German professor.

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