The 2000 census also documents the languages spoken at home by members of the population who were 5 years old and older. Whereas (more than 215 million people) report speaking only English at home, (nearly 47 million people) report speaking a language other than English at home. Of these, more than 21 million people ( of the total . population over the age of 5) report that they “speak English less than ‘very well’” (. Bureau of the Census, 2003).