In Puerto Rico was a Referendum about Whether English should be the offical Language in Puerto Rico, but it was rejected by Puerto Ricans. The Puerto Rico has special Status in The Union. It is a Free Associated State. However, Puerto Ricans should know speaking English.
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Statehood supporters say such concerns are unwarranted because Puerto Rico has made both Spanish and English official languages. But even though most well-educated Puerto Ricans speak English, and English is widely taught in the public schools, the island’s four million residents are still overwhelmingly Spanish-speaking according to the Census. And the default language of Puerto Rico’s day-to-day government operations is Spanish, not English.
Unless that changes and Puerto Rico agrees to conduct its government operations in English like all the other fifty states, admitting the Spanish-speaking island to the Union will have an immediate impact on the United States. Puerto Rico is likely to demand that the federal government operate in both English and Spanish to accommodate its congressional representatives and its Spanish-speaking citizenry. That will give rise to speeches and debates in Spanish on the floor of Congress, with simultaneous translation similar to what we now see at UN meetings.
I paste here a part of a article who Speaks about the LAnguages in USA:
Statehood supporters say such concerns are unwarranted because Puerto Rico has made both Spanish and English official languages. But even though most well-educated Puerto Ricans speak English, and English is widely taught in the public schools, the island’s four million residents are still overwhelmingly Spanish-speaking according to the Census. And the default language of Puerto Rico’s day-to-day government operations is Spanish, not English.
Unless that changes and Puerto Rico agrees to conduct its government operations in English like all the other fifty states, admitting the Spanish-speaking island to the Union will have an immediate impact on the United States. Puerto Rico is likely to demand that the federal government operate in both English and Spanish to accommodate its congressional representatives and its Spanish-speaking citizenry. That will give rise to speeches and debates in Spanish on the floor of Congress, with simultaneous translation similar to what we now see at UN meetings.