Importance of Maintaining Importance Ancestral Language Maintaining How importantis it to you that future generations of living in the United States be able to speak <your ancestrallang uage>? (%) Hispanics
Some 68% of second-generation Latinos consider it very important for future generations to be able to speak Spanish. Third-generation Latinos are equally as likely as their second-generation counterparts to state that retaining the ability to use Spanish is very or somewhat important.
Importance of Maintaining  | Importance Ancestral Language Maintaining  | How importantis it to you that future generations  | of living in the United States be able to speak  | <your ancestrallang uage>? (%)  | mivery important  | Somewhat important  | Hispanics  | All  | 75  | 20  | 1st generation  | 82 14  | 2nd generation  | 26  | 68  | Asian Americans  | All  | 45  | 35  | 1st generation  | 33  | 49  | 2nd generation  | 37  | 39  | Notes: speakSpanish Based on all adults wording Hispanics asked about being able  | to varied speakSpanish depending Question respondent wording backg for round; Asian Americans being the topline  | varied Appendix3 speakSpanish depending on respondent wording backg round; see the topline  | varied in Appendix3 depending for details on respondent  | Source: 2011 National Q67 Survey of Latinos Q70, 2012 Asian-  | American Survey Q67  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 