At-home Russian is 8th FL in US

[Susan Bauckus]

In addition to the decline in speakers of some languages, the # of Russian speakers continues to increase, although more slowly than since 2000, according to the yearly Census Bureau's Amerian Community Survey (e.g., the Census Bureau's American Community Survey lists 823,210 Russian speakers in the U.S. for 2007 and 864,069 in 2008). Strange that the # in their report do not correspond fully w/ their own tables' numbers, but this happens w/ the Census. 

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Susan Bauckus
UCLA Center for World Languages
www.international.ucla.edu
Heritage Language Journal
www.heritagelanguages.org
Language Materials Project
www.lmp.ucla.edu
LA Language World
www.lalamag.ucla.edu

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