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| maaku Senior Member United States Joined 5566 days ago 359 posts - 562 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 33 of 121 31 August 2009 at 1:57am | IP Logged |
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English, Mandarin Chinese, and Spanish. Because that's what me, my roommates, and my neighbors speak. Living in a multi-cultural community is awesome :)
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 newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6371 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 34 of 121 31 August 2009 at 6:09am | IP Logged |
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English (every day)
Mandarin (every day) Indonesian (most days) Hokkien (most days) Cantonese (some days) Japanese (some days) Korean (some days) Malay (some days) Tamil (some days) and lots of other South Asian languages that I can't identify. Edited by newyorkeric on 31 August 2009 at 6:10am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Ashley_Victrola Senior Member United States Joined 5698 days ago 416 posts - 429 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Romanian | Message 35 of 121 04 September 2009 at 1:19pm | IP Logged |
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English
French (movie and music) Romanian (music) a mix of Asiatic and Indian languages that I do not know (international students in my dorm) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Choscura Diglot Groupie United States Joined 5540 days ago 61 posts - 82 votes Speaks: English*, Thai | Message 36 of 121 27 September 2009 at 7:50pm | IP Logged |
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I've had some days where I hear a lot of languages every minute. I think the record is going to a bible-camp thing and coming across a large number of hill tribe languages and american/european missionaries. Off the top of my head, I remember English, Spanish, norweigan, swedish, russian, and German being spoken on the missionary side, and on the missionary-ee side, Thai, lao, khmer, burmese, kachin, jinpaw, lisu (green, blue), lahu, rawang, naka, karren, karreni, s'gah, mong (green, white, black), and akha. Half of these languages are dying, Jinpaw I think being the worst among them- even fluent native speakers find it an unpleasant and difficult language to speak, apparently, and so it's dying out in favor of trade languages.
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6695 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 37 of 121 27 September 2009 at 10:05pm | IP Logged |
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Yesterday I visited Rosenborg castle and several museums and the tourist information in Copenhagen, I walked through 'Strøget' (the main pedestrian street in Copenhagen) and I had dinner dinner in a room where people where speaking at least three languages simultaneously.
I heard at last Danish, English, Swedish, Norwegian, German, Low German (uttered by myself), Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, some Indian language, Polish and at least one other Slavic language (Czech or Slovak- I'm not sure), and probably many more which I just didn't care about. Today I visited Roskilde, which is much more sedate, but there was a group of Japanese tourists in the Viking ship museum, and I heard at least Danish, German and Swedish. I'm currently watching Discovery in English, so that doesn't add any new languages to the list. Edited by Iversen on 27 September 2009 at 10:06pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Americano Senior Member Korea, South Joined 6838 days ago 101 posts - 120 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean | Message 38 of 121 01 October 2009 at 9:19am | IP Logged |
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I was at a club last night and I heard Spanish(spoken by me with some Central Americans), Russian, Czech, Mandarin (I'm in Taipei), Hindi, and English. A typical day here I only hear Mandarin and English though. Edited by Americano on 01 October 2009 at 9:20am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ennime Tetraglot Senior Member South Africa universityofbrokengl Joined 5896 days ago 397 posts - 507 votes Speaks: English, Dutch*, Esperanto, Afrikaans Studies: Xhosa, French, Korean, Portuguese, Zulu | Message 39 of 121 01 October 2009 at 10:12pm | IP Logged |
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today: English, Korean and French (all in Seoul)... Bit of German cause there were three
tourists next to our table in Starbucks. Usually that is kinda it what I experience here in Seoul, though infrequently I get exposes to Japanese and Mandarin as well 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5559 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 40 of 121 02 October 2009 at 1:20am | IP Logged |
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English (everywhere)
French (customers at work) Korean (customers at work) Spanish (listened to news) German (listened to news) Chinese (audio lesson, music) Japanese (music) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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