El Paso is a very bilingual city. Our proximity to Mexico practically guarantees peeps are speaking Spanish regularly and even those that aren’t fluent, understand at least some.<\/p>\n
A ton of El Pasoans speak Spanish … 67% according to a recent study<\/a> … and, (thanks mostly to Fort Bliss and the constant influx of military from all over the country), there’s a pretty decent number of other languages being spoken here.<\/p>\n Now, a study by Preply <\/a>says the 915 is the MOST bilingual city in the entire USA.<\/p>\n According to Preply<\/a>, 1 in 5 Americans speaks more than one language with 21% of the country being bilingual. The percentage of bilingual peeps in El Paso, (39.44%), is double that.<\/p>\n The majority of\u00a0the population in El Paso<\/a>\u00a0is Spanish-speaking, with the Spanish-speaking population surpassing non-Spanish-speaking people as the majority in 1965. With a population of 685,434, El Paso is the sixth-largest city in Texas and the 22nd-largest city in the United States.<\/p>\n Nearly\u00a07 in 10 residents\u00a0of El Paso speak a language other than English, and\u00a039% of its population is bilingual.\u00a0– Preply<\/a><\/p>\n Both L. A. and San Jose, California, are nipping at our heels with 33.46% and 32.93% respectively. San Antonio is in 4th place with 29.81% and New York, “the Melting Pot” of the USA, only making it to 5th place. (26.03%)<\/p>\n The #2 Most Popular Language In El Paso?<\/p>\n If you can speak Spanish, you can hold your own in Italian, French and, of course, all the other forms of Spanish spoken throughout the world.<\/p>\n Thanks to the military and a once, “permanent” German Air Force presence in El Paso, we also have quite a few folks around here who are fluent in German.<\/p>\n LOOK: Learn The Language Of Horn Honking<\/p>\n Learn the difference between the honks, like: one short tap or two short Taps, and the long one is a bit more serious. Here’s where you can learn to speak honking.<\/p>\n