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Ahoy maties!. Remember Sept 19th is Talk Like a Pirate Day. Here’s some phrases to get ye smartly on yer way. Aye!.
Today is International Talk like a Pirate Day! On the 19th of September, every year, we commemorate the golden age of Piracy as a ‘fun’ holiday.
A US census had shown that more than 55 million people speak more than 300 languages. Spanish and Chinese were the most-spoken languages of all.
Believe it or not, you already know how to speak some French!
You know the latest product a la mode, you have a rendez-vous and you eat foie-gras.
A new Census Bureau Interactive Map shows Spanish as the number one language spoken in USA with Chinese being the second most-spoken one; most of the population is proficient in English, however.