Nearly a quarter of New Yorkers do not speak English

According to the Office of the U.S. Census, 1.6 million New Yorkers admitted 7.3 million over 5 years of the New, who do not speak English. Is 22% of the population of the city. In particular, the largest city in the immigrant community - Spanish-speaking immigrants from Latin America (1.8 million) - nearly 850,000 are convinced that speaking the language of the United States wrong. Immigrants from China, 360 000, and 128 000 people speak only English. 199 000 lives among the Russians in the largest city in the U.S., only 76,000 of the language is not an issue, says: "Echo of the Planet". This contrasts sharply with the data throughout the country over the 268.1 million people over 5 years of bad English-speaking only 8.6% of the population. Travel.ru