Complex sentence: As of 2000,75.6% of the population spoke English as their first language, followed by Spanish at 9.4%, Haitian Creole 7.5%, French 2.0%, Portuguese 1.0% and Italian 0.8%.
Split into simpler sentences: As of 2000,75.6% of the population spoke only English at home. Speakers of Spanish were 9.4%, Haitian Creole 7.5%, French 2.0%, Portuguese 1.0% and Italian 0.8%.