``Frequently used foreign language ranking in the United States'', Korean surpasses German to 7th place = Korean net ``Hurray for the Korean wave'' (December 13, 2021) - Excite News

Korean ranks 7th in the list of the most used foreign languages ​​in the United States. On December 13, Korean media Chosun Biz reported. According to the article, the US research firm "Visual Capitalist" announced the survey results on the 10th local time, citing the statistics of the US Community Survey (ACS) in 2019. About 1,075,000 Americans over the age of five use Korean on a daily basis, making it the seventh most common language other than English. According to the survey results, 22% (approximately 67.8 million) of the total US population (308.8 million) speak a language other than English at home, of which 61.6% (approximately 41.757 million) people) are using 'Spanish'. After Spanish, Chinese (about 3,495,000 people) accounted for 5.2% of the foreign language speaking population. Chinese here refers to standard Mandarin and Cantonese. Tagalog, the standard language of the Philippines (1.764 million people, 2.6%), Vietnamese (about 1.57 million people, 2.3%), and Arabic (about 1.26 million people, 1.3%). 9%), followed by French (about 1.17 million people, 1.7%). Korean users, who ranked 7th, account for 1.6% of the foreign language users, but the number of Korean Americans is about 1.908 million as of 2019. In addition, there are about 941,000 Russian speakers (1.4%), about 925,000 Haitian Creole speakers (1.4%), and about 895,000 German speakers (1.3%). ranked in. Korean internet users commented, "Thank you to Kim Dae-jung, Roh Moo-hyun, and President Moon Jae-in for building the pillars of the Korean wave. Long live the Korean wave!" "The fact that Korean is widely used means that Korea is known to the world." "Korean will become the world's standard language." Let's put it into words." On the other hand, ``It's just that there are various races in the United States,'' ``If Chinese and Vietnamese are ranked high, it's not something to be happy about,'' ``Americans are pro-Japanese, so Japanese are more I think there are a lot of people who adore it,” and some cold comments were also seen. (Translation/Editing/Maruyama)