There would need to be research done, nothing has been said if these people were all immigrants to Barcelona or the wages they were on, my guess is they are probably not truly random and replication will be difficult if we chose say bilingual in Wales, for example.
There is not reason to think that inmigrant population is over-represented in the hospitals. Would be more logical to expect the opposite, in fact, as some immigrants could be more reluctant to go to the hospitals.
- What says Lord Stanley? will he bring his power?
- My lord, he doth deny to come.
- Off with his son George's head!
in the original Klingon. Pursuing the synergy-recognising creative destruction of a Stanley[1] is no doubt in the wheelhouse of some on on the Forbes list.
If I were to immigrate to Barcelona I would learn (Galician) Spanish, but perhaps not Catalan. (Though it’s a beautiful language.) I guess I would count as monolingual in their study.
You can speak Spanish tainted by Galician words and modisms also. Is very common in Spanish speakers. The whole communication can be a 90% spanish and 10% Galician (or the opposite).