A stunning 43 percent of California residents speak a language other than English at home, according to census figures released on Tuesday. And 20 percent of Californians feel they don’t speak English “very well.” By contrast, fewer than 20 percent of Americans overall speak another language at home, and fewer than 9 percent say they don’t speak English “very well.”
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