{"id":11778,"date":"2015-10-16T16:24:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T15:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=11778"},"modified":"2015-10-16T16:24:24","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T15:24:24","slug":"multilingual-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=11778","title":{"rendered":"Multilingual New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One thing I noticed in New York was that there was a lot of Spanish around &#8211; in bilingual English\/Spanish signs at the airport, and on trains and boats. There were also multilingual signs on the subway  in English, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Korean and Haitian Creole. I heard many languages being spoken by local people around the city, including Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Gujarati, Croatian, Italian, and others I didn&#8217;t recognise, as well as all the languages spoken by tourists. So New York certainly is a multilingual city.<\/p>\n<p>Are other parts of the USA like this?<\/p>\n<p>Is it common for there to be bilingual signs in English and Spanish, or other combinations of languages?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing I noticed in New York was that there was a lot of Spanish around &#8211; in bilingual English\/Spanish signs at the airport, and on trains and boats. There were also multilingual signs on the subway in English, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Korean and Haitian Creole. I heard many languages being spoken by local people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-spanish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}