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Walshy
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Australia
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Speaks: English*, Spanish, German

 
 Message 49 of 121
21 October 2009 at 7:00am | IP Logged 
A walk through uni today yielded (as it usually always does):

- Arabic.
- An Indian language, presumably Hindi.
- Mandarin.
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kyknos
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Czech Republic
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Studies: German, Spanish

 
 Message 50 of 121
09 November 2009 at 1:16am | IP Logged 
- Czech (I live in Czech republic)
- Slovak (shop assistant in a local shop)
- Vietnamese (shop assistant in the other shop)
- Romani (children playing on the street)
- Russian (pretty girls in a bus)
- German (some official broadcast in subway)
- English (some official broadcast in subway, music)
- Greek (from audiocourse)
- Welsh (music Goddodin/Test Dept.)

The world is small.
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Wilco
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Canada
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 Message 51 of 121
09 November 2009 at 2:46pm | IP Logged 
French.

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Morak99
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United States
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Studies: French

 
 Message 52 of 121
18 November 2009 at 3:55am | IP Logged 
English, French (in class), and Korean (at tie-kwon-do).
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doviende
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Canada
languagefixatio
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Speaks: English*, German
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 Message 53 of 121
18 November 2009 at 6:45am | IP Logged 
Mandarin (on the subway)
Cantonese (my neighbours)
Hindi (my other neighbours)
English (I live in Vancouver, Canada)

It's quite common that I also hear Spanish, Arabic, or Farsi on the subway, and occasionally German or various slavic languages that I can't distinguish, but not too often.

Ironically, although Canada is officially bilingual English/French, there are almost no French speakers at all here on the west coast. Occasionally there are some street punks that have hitch-hiked from Quebec (several thousand kilometers away), but all of the languages I mentioned above are much much more common here than French.
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ennime
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South Africa
universityofbrokengl
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Speaks: English, Dutch*, Esperanto, Afrikaans
Studies: Xhosa, French, Korean, Portuguese, Zulu

 
 Message 54 of 121
20 November 2009 at 7:56am | IP Logged 
Sesotho, Afrikaans, English, isiZulu, isiXhosa, Setswana... just gotta love uMzantsi
Afrika ^_^
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Elwing
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United Kingdom
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Speaks: Swedish, Finnish*, English, French
Studies: Norwegian

 
 Message 55 of 121
23 November 2009 at 9:59pm | IP Logged 
Today:
English: whenever I go outside the house
Finnish: talking with my mum
Swedish: talking with my friend and her mum
French: in my French lesson
Russian: two people in my Psychology class
Italian: in the college corridor

Quite often also other languages that my classmates speak (e.g. Czech, Lithuanian, Polish, Spanish, German) and languages you hear in college corridors (e.g. Arabic, Somali, Japanese, Chinese) but those didn't happen to come up today.

Edited by Elwing on 23 November 2009 at 9:59pm

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mick33
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Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish

 
 Message 56 of 121
23 November 2009 at 11:09pm | IP Logged 
Yesterday I attended a religious service that was conducted almost entirely in Samoan.


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