Come to Los Angeles,

You'll see newspapers in dozens of languages. My wife gets the Rafu Shimpo, a japanese newspaper in Japanese made in Los Angeles, based in Los Angeles, with Los Angeles editors, writers. On the radio, 106.5 FM (I think, is a vietnamese station...)

You'll also notice that governmental notices (public hearings, regulatory announcements, official city web sites) offer many languages, such as Mandarin, Cantonese, Armenian, Arabic, Japanese, Spanish, Portugese, Thai... the list goes on.

You'll see the EU translating for other EU languages, but unless things have changes, I would be surprised to see arabic, thai, or farsi on official notices.

--- David Monniaux David.Monniaux@ens.fr wrote:

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Not true. We (the USA) lack an *official* national language.

Depending

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on the state, 1-5 languages are used. Compare to the EU.

Come on. All official sites, all political debates, all major news etc. are in English. Can a latino legislator do a speech in Spanish in the Capitol US? I doubt so; at least, I doubt it could happen in practice.

Compare to multilingual European countries like Belgium or Switzerland.

I mean, radios, newspapers etc. for immigrant communities also exist in Europe. Go to Paris, you'll see Chinese and Arabic newspapers, Arabic radios.

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