SANTA MARIA, California -- Although America is a land of immigrants from all over the world, when it comes to language fluency one could easily say we suffer from monolingualism. An old joke goes something like this:
What do you call a person who speaks three languages? Trilingual.
A person who speaks two languages? Bilingual.
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