Notes:
federal (政府・国家が)連邦政府の
claim to　～すると主張する
census　国勢調査
Tagalog　タガログ語
Vietnamese　ベトナム語
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Last time I told you that South Africa has 11 official languages, but did you know that on the federal level, the United States doesn’t have any official languages even though 96% of the population claims to speak it “well” or “very well”? Once every 10 years, we take a census in the US. In the year 2000, 215 million people over the age of five said their only language at home was English. The next most popular language was Spanish, with 28 million people. Chinese languages, French, German, Tagalog, Vietnamese, and Italian were next; each had over 1 million speakers. I guess that’s why they call the US a salad bowl. (by Prof. Carmella Lieske)
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Notes:
release：(映画を)公開する;
a remake of～　～をリメイクした作品;
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It’s almost summer vacation in the United States, which means the beginning of the summer movie season. There are a few times during the year when a lot of movies are released, and summer is one of the big ones. Nine new movies were released in May. Four movies, Splice, Killers, Get Him to the Greek, and Marmaduke, were released on June 4. The Karate Kid, a remake of an old movie, and the A-Team both open June 11, and two more movies, Toy Story 3 and Jonah Hex, will open on June 18. In total, your choices will increase by eleven during the month of June, and you will get another nine choices during July. You can see how important the summer season is to Hollywood, so how about a movie? (by Prof. Carmella Lieske)
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