article_snippet: More than half of young adults in Los Angeles can fluently speak a language other than English, despite the fact that LA's percentage of foreign born residents is decreasing.
article_snippet: Fifty-seven per cent of those aged 18 to 34, in LA spoke a language other than English at home, beating out Miami which had 55 per cent and San Jose with 54 per cent.
article_snippet: Roughly a quarter of the 'Millenial' generation nationwide uses another language, according to the American Community Survey.
article_snippet: A map of young adults' ability to speak a language other than English uses dark red for counties where more than 40 per cent of 18 to 34-year-olds communicate in a foreign language at home, and lighter shades of pink for smaller proportions of the population .
article_snippet: Roughly 60 per cent of LA residents age five and older speak a language other than English, with Spanish the most popular language among them.
article_snippet: However, the proportion of foreign-born adults in Los Angeles has actually decreased 9 percentage points to a little less than a third since 1990, and a large number of the Millenials with foreign language skills are thought to be bilingual.
article_snippet: California has seen a growing percentage of California young adults speaking foreign languages (bars in blue) since the 1980s.
article_snippet: Areas that showed the highest rates for speaking something other than English were near the US-Mexico border in California and Texas.
article_snippet: New Jersey was found to be the third most likely state for a young adult to speak a foreign language at home.
highlights_snippet: Fifty-seven per cent of 18 to 34-year-olds in LA don't speak English at home .
  
highlights_snippet: More than half of Millennials speak non-English language in Miami, San Jose .
  