Could the United States become bilingual?

The U.S. has now over 50 million people of Hispanic and after Mexico, it has the largest Spanish-speaking population in the world. In this article, Delfin Carbonell Basset posed the question: “Will Spanish survive as a language widely spoken by Latinos in the United States?”

"The U.S. could become a mutual-integration society if schools implemented bilingual education, just as many countries are trying to do, " says Carbonell. "Spain, for example, has embarked on a bilingual curriculum for children… but, alas, Spain does not have many native English-speaking immigrants with whom to practice in real-life situations, on a daily basis."

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