How Many Israelis Speak English? Mother Tongue Stats From CBS Survey 2021
Channel: Daniel Rosehill
Date: 2023-09-20

As an adopted home to Jewish immigrants from all over the world, Israel is a linguistic kaleidoscope of sorts. Hundreds of thousands of Israelis speak languages other than Hebrew as their mother tongue. But how many speak English as that level compared to other languages such as Russian, French, Spanish, and Amharic? 

Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) includes mother tongue language in an annual sociological survey (sample size: 9,200). The findings show that substantially more Israelis speak Russian than English and that only 2.6% of Israel's Jewish population has English as a native language (whole population: 2.1%).

== Timestamps ==

Intro - 00:00
The evolution of Hebrew - 00:40
Linguistic communities in Israel - 01:00
Mother tongue question - 01:44
Sample size and survey limitations - 01:58
Speaker ranking by mother tongue - 02:33
Russian as a first language - 02:44
French, Spanish, Yiddish - 02:56
Russian vs English - 04:00

#languages #languagelearning #israel 

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