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| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5473 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 73 of 121 05 March 2010 at 2:37pm | IP Logged |
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Ahh today let's see, I heard the following, even though it is still a little early.
German- I passed my German teacher in the hallway and she had to talk to me about one of the projects my class is doing. French- Friend speaking to his sister Hungarian- Another friend speaking on the phone to her parents. Polish- Yet ANOTHER friend speaking to her sister. Spanish- A girl in the hallway with her friend. Korean- A Korean girl in the library. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| lackinglatin Triglot Groupie United States randomwritingsetc.blRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5972 days ago 62 posts - 146 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, Modern Hebrew Studies: Spanish | Message 74 of 121 06 March 2010 at 5:04am | IP Logged |
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A couple days ago I became conscious of my surroundings when I was recording a game of Go with a Japanese friend I was playing at university.
I had spoken with some Koreans earlier, and overheard them talking to themselves before, but that wasn't filmed... but in the film there was: English (which we shared) Hebrew (I'm in Israel, a Mexican friend who was watching explained something to an Israeli about the game) Spanish (He also greeted a south american friend there) Arabic (There was a theological argument going on from when Arabic I could understand in the background for a lot of it) Japanese (He was muttering to himself in thought, and we both shared the traditional Japanese initiation and end statements for a game accordingly) I also heard German (lots of Germans in our school... in fact, a Swiss guy was watching, I don't know if he spoke any German there or not). And now that I think about it, my Spanish friend might have used some of his French and Italian (just smatterings) while watching the game as well, I'll have to watch the video again. Maybe I should post a link to it when I put it up? It's fairly long, I'll probably also put a sped up version for the sake of the game, and then a full version for the full linguistic pleasure. :) That's a potential 9 languages being safe, excluding the potential Russian that's also common, possibly Finnish (there are several Fins here), and so on. I'm the only native English speaker in my Hebrew class, actually. Last semester we had 10 different countries represented. There's a girl from Cypress in my class on the day I played that game of Go, but I doubt she spoke any Greek there. I also hear Swiss German at least once a week because of a community I hang out with outside of school that uses it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Aleksey Groz Tetraglot Newbie Yugoslavia Joined 5361 days ago 14 posts - 19 votes Speaks: Serbo-Croatian*, English, Czech, FrenchB2 | Message 75 of 121 14 March 2010 at 6:06pm | IP Logged |
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Serbo-Croatian (all the day)
English (how could I escape it?!) French (Serbian-French radio this morning) Czech (my co-worker) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6134 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 76 of 121 17 March 2010 at 3:23am | IP Logged |
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English (I live in the US)
French (in class) Spanish (in class/hearing people speak in general/speaking with friend) Does my own study count? If so, I can add Swahili onto there from the recording of my study material. If my own voice counts too, I could add a few more. Edited by ellasevia on 17 March 2010 at 3:24am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| liyulianyanyu Newbie China Joined 5362 days ago 10 posts - 11 votes Studies: English | Message 77 of 121 17 March 2010 at 8:14am | IP Logged |
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I've heard Chinese,English,Japanese,Korean.
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| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5583 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 78 of 121 21 March 2010 at 1:16am | IP Logged |
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I stopped in a diner this morning in New York City. What languages did I hear? Greek, by the owner and managers (no surprise there, it was a NYC diner after all), Italian (but only one person greeting his friend and then they conversed in English), Spanish (among the wait staff, myself, and the busboys), French (a mother , father, and young daughter, who appeared to be tourists),and English,(but the UK not American variety, among four men).
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| markchapman Diglot Groupie Taiwan tesolzone.com/ Joined 5464 days ago 44 posts - 55 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Portuguese | Message 79 of 121 28 March 2010 at 10:55am | IP Logged |
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Portuguese, French & English.
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| Rina Newbie United States Joined 5536 days ago 35 posts - 64 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Mandarin, Korean | Message 80 of 121 01 April 2010 at 8:42pm | IP Logged |
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English (mostly)
Cherokee ^-^ German Chinese I'm really looking froward to living somewhere where I could hear more languages on a daily basis. The majority of what I hear is English or Spanish. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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