However, recent immigrants can speak less English than the earlier Congolese migrants.
These immigrants speak English with varying degrees of fluency.
Today, many immigrants speak another tongue at home.
Although the early immigrants spoke little English, many found success as small-business owners.
All the immigrants spoke on condition that their full names not be used.
Illegal immigrants must have a clean record and a job, speak English and pay a big fine.
Only the elderly, very young children and recent immigrants speak their mother tongue, besides English.
Most immigrants from the former Soviet Union speak Russian at home and favor news media in their own language.
Finding that some immigrants could not speak any Swedish after being here two or three decades, the country also provided intensive free language instruction.
He didn't like the sound of it as the new Jewish immigrants were speaking it.
