# @nextshark on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2024-06-17T19:58:19.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NextShark (@nextshark) — https://gondola.cc/nextshark

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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday to recognize Vietnamese as an official city language. It now joins Chinese, Spanish and Filipino in a move aimed at enhancing language access for the city’s diverse immigrant communities.⁠
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The decision follows an amendment to San Francisco’s language access ordinance, which now lowers the threshold for language translation services from 10,000 to 6,000 speakers with limited English proficiency. A total of 6,791 residents primarily speak Vietnamese in the city.⁠
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This means all city government announcements — including telephonic interpretations, website content, written notifications and other official services — will be translated into Vietnamese. Community advocates highlighted persistent gaps in language access, with issues noted even in essential services such as healthcare.⁠
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translationservices, lansf, littlesaigon, vietnamese, news, sanfancisco, healthcare, languageaccessibility, vietnameselanguage

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