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VOL. 24, NO. 84
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English main choice of families
◆ 88.6 -- per cent of city’s population reported English only as a mother tongue; provincially 70.3 per cent speak English only. ◆ 1.4 -- per cent reported French only as mother tongue; provincially 1.3 per cent speak French only. ◆ 9.1 -- per cent reported only a non-official language as mother tongue; provincially 26.5 per cent speak only non-official languages.
Census data for Nanaimo shows more people speaking English at home
◆ 95.5 -- per cent spoke only English most often at home, compared to the provincial average of 80.5 per cent. ◆ 0.3 -- per cent spoke French most often at home, compared to 0.4 per cent provincially. ◆ 3 -- per cent spoke only a non-official language at home, compared to 15.4 per cent provincially.
BY JENN M C GARR R IGLE THE NEWS BULLETIN
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hen Rim Shin moved to Canada from South Korea with her husband and two children almost 10 years ago, she struggled at first to interact and get important information. Shin, now an immigration settlement worker with the Central Vancouver Island Multicultural Society’s Immigrant Welcome Centre, knew a bit of English before she moved here, but she was overwhelmed at times. “The system is different and there is no translation into Korean,” she said. “I could not
access imp por orta tant nt in nffor ma mati tion on n in my language. Th he written English language can be difficult to understand. So ometimes when I phoned some ccompany ompany or government office, they couldn’t understand my English because of my accent, so it was very frustrating.” Buying a house in Nanaimo was one of the first roadblocks – the contract was all in English, in tiny letters. The family also wanted information about severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), but struggled to navigate the English-only Vancouver Island Health Authority website. Shin finds Nanaimo to be a welcoming community, but her
accent still makes it hard for some people to understand her. While most clients also have positive experiences in Nanaimo – many talk about the friendliness of residents – some people told her that others stare at them when wearing traditional dress and one client was told by someone to go back to their country of origin because they couldn’t speak English
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well. Shin said some people who initially moved to Nanaimo end up moving to the Greater Vancouver area because they want to be with people who speak the same language or are from the same ethnic group; others move to Nanaimo from Vancouver because they want to immerse themselves more in Canadian culture without having that ethnic group to fall back on.
The latest language statistics from the 2011 census show that in Nanaimo the majority of the population – 72,615 out of 83,810 – reported English as their mother tongue, while 1,170 reported French as their mother tongue and 8,115 had a non-official first language. But the language Nanaimoites speak at home is more singular: 78,570 people spoke English at home, compared with 265 French speakers and 2,770 who spoke a non-official language at home. The list of non-official languages spoken is long with Chinese, Dutch, German, Punjabi and Spanish ranked highest. ◆ See ‘INTERNATIONAL’ /5
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