---
title: "Speaking Only Spanish at Home"
description: "More than half of foreign-born Hispanics (52%) report that they speak only Spanish at home."
date: "2007-12-06"
authors:
  - name: "Russell Heimlich"
    job_title: "Former web developer"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/russell-heimlich/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2007/12/06/speaking-only-spanish-at-home/"
categories:
  - "Comparison of Generations"
---

# Speaking Only Spanish at Home

More than half of foreign-born Hispanics (52%) report that they speak only Spanish at home, but that is true of just 11% of their adult children and of 6% of the children of U.S.-born Hispanics. Half of the adult children of Latino immigrants do speak some Spanish at home, but by the third and higher generation, that proportion has fallen to one-in-four. All generations are more likely to use English at work than at home. Among the first generation, 29% speak only English or mainly English on the job. By the second generation, two-thirds speak mainly or only English in the workplace. Most later generations of Hispanics (58%) speak only English at work and an additional 22% say they speak mainly English at work. [Read More](https://www.pewresearch.org/pubs/644/english-language-usage-hispanics)