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On 16 June 2023, it was proposed that this article be moved from List of most commonly learned foreign languages in the United States to List of most commonly learned languages in the United States. The result of the discussion was moved.

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This list does not give the total of all college students in the USA. Also, a similar article on foreign languages learned at elementary, middle and highschool level would be nice too. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.227.172.249 (talk) 12:00, 30 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Broken link in first source[edit]

The first source is fubar, can't find it anymore. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.83.77.2 (talk) 17:15, 5 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed by going to the Wayback Machine, but, as noted in the "More recent" section, we need newer data. Guy Harris (talk) 17:30, 5 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

More recent[edit]

Could someone please give a more recent list. 2006 is 7 years ago. Also, Arabic is misplaced in the list; it should be 10th rather than 8th.--Solomonfromfinland (talk) 16:09, 13 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

There is an updated list for Fall 2013 at http://www.mla.org/pdf/2013_enrollment_survey.pdf but my HTML table-editing skills are no good — Preceding unsigned comment added by Peepeedia (talk • contribs) 00:02, 7 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This page needs updating; In recent years, students have been called upon to perform songs in American Sign Language, and instruction in Mandarin Chinese has become more common nationwide. Tyrekecorrea (talk) 17:34, 17 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 16 June 2023[edit]

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. Moved to List of most commonly learned second languages in the United States (non-admin closure) Captain Jack Sparrow (talk) 18:21, 23 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

List of most commonly learned foreign languages in the United States → List of most commonly learned languages in the United States – American Sign Language isn't a foreign language. Cherrell410 (talk) 01:01, 16 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You're correct of course, but the most commonly learned language in the US is English, so I don't think the proposed title fits either. One of the sources uses "languages other than English" which is too clunky for a title IMO, and the other uses "other languages" (in context of a paper about foreign languages, and that's where the ASL data is written). I'm not sure what a good solution would be here. WPscatter ^t/_c 04:25, 22 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

What about List of most commonly learned second languages in The United States? Would that tick all the boxes? Suggest relisting to discuss. Andrewa (talk) 01:54, 23 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I think that actually would be a more accurate title, since the sources seem to exclude learning foreign languages at home (i.e. as a first language). (But note that the T in "the United States" should be lowercase in your link.) WPscatter ^t/_c 02:07, 23 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.