... In the United State, there is no official national language. That is to say that unlike other countries that have a national language such as Spanish, French, Hindi, Japanese, etc., the United States recognizes English as the language most commonly used for legal or governmental documentation and the language ... that neglects the hundreds of thousands of slaves brought from Africa prior to 1619 in Jamestown. It is also interesting that in the ATS-W Preparation Guide (2002) provided by the New York State Certification Examinations (NYSTCE), the following question appears (p. 36): 11. A t...

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... in the United States and almost all of them are playing host to students from all over the world. Students come to the US to study from national cultures as different to each other as that of Indonesia and Ireland, and as different to the American culture as those of the ... Emirates and Outer Mongolia. By way of example, consider the languages that can be heard on the campus of one of our local community colleges! Apart from English and Spanish, some of the languages that can be heard at Pepperdine University include Farsi (Iran), Russian, Cantonese, Mandarin, Korean, Japanese, Indonesi...

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