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 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6912 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 17 of 121 02 July 2009 at 3:03pm | IP Logged |
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Yesterday (and today, so far) - only Swedish. If I count tv/movies/podcasts, I've heard English, German, Russian and Chinese. Maybe a word or two of Finnish. If I'd take a walk around the town, I'd probably hear at least English and German. A couple of days ago I heard English, German, Finnish and Danish at work. We have a lot of tourists right now, so on any day it can be anything from "only Swedish" up 5-10 languages.
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| Ninja Bunny Diglot Groupie United States Joined 5795 days ago 42 posts - 46 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Dutch, Danish, Mandarin, Afrikaans, Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, French | Message 18 of 121 02 July 2009 at 9:03pm | IP Logged |
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I listen to daily podcasts in German and Italian so that's a given. I've been keeping tabs on the news so I've heard quite a bit of Farsi just about every day for the last couple weeks. Also, I have coworkers from India and they speak Hindi together.
Walking around town I typically hear Russian, Chinese (several dialects), Vietnamese, Spanish, Hindi or Punjabi, Japanese and sometimes Korean. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Kurkko Diglot Newbie Finland Joined 5678 days ago 21 posts - 23 votes Studies: Swedish, Finnish*, English Studies: German, Dutch, Danish, Icelandic | Message 19 of 121 02 August 2009 at 12:15am | IP Logged |
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Hmm.... Today I heard:
Finnish (I live in Finland) English (Music ) Danish (Some Youtube videos I was watching) German (Some girl was speaking and I happened to overhear. Also, television.) Icelandic (... Well kind of. My little brother was trying to read my Icelandic books. He failed.) Swedish (Television) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| goosefrabbas Triglot Pro Member United States Joined 6371 days ago 393 posts - 475 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German, Italian Personal Language Map | Message 20 of 121 02 August 2009 at 12:51am | IP Logged |
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Not counting language course audio, I heard three languages today. It's a very short list compared to most of the ones here, but this might only happen every few months for me when I'm not at school!
English - I live in USA. Spanish - I saw one of my former ESL students and we spoke in Spanglish. French - I saw my old high school counselor at the store where I saw my old ESL student, and he knows French, so we spoke in Franglais how whatever the cool kids call it these days. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| mrhenrik Triglot Moderator Norway Joined 6082 days ago 482 posts - 658 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, French Personal Language Map | Message 21 of 121 02 August 2009 at 1:32am | IP Logged |
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I work in a bookstore in a big shopping mall near Oslo, so there's a lot of different cultures going on. I'm not entirely sure what languages I've heard today, but these are my guesses:
English (YouTube) Japanese (Denshi Otoko - JDrama) Norwegian (obviously) Urdu (work) Chinese (work) Thai (work) Arabic (work) Polish (work) Czech (work) Spanish (work) Danish (work) Swedish (work) All I can remember right now. ;O 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| hanni aka cordelia0507 Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5607 days ago 69 posts - 92 votes Speaks: Dutch* | Message 22 of 121 02 August 2009 at 4:30pm | IP Logged |
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English, Polish, Russian and some languages that I don't know.
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| Zanna Triglot Newbie Poland Joined 5707 days ago 21 posts - 21 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Spanish Studies: Catalan, French | Message 23 of 121 04 August 2009 at 11:06am | IP Logged |
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I'm a receptionist in central London so I just stopped counting - envy me!
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| FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6868 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 24 of 121 06 August 2009 at 5:29pm | IP Logged |
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Today I heard...
English (visiting family in the UK, so obvious really) Somali (on the bus going into the city centre a Somali woman got on) Arabic (two girls in a store I was in) Polish (two guys briefly went past me speaking this) Spanish (students near the university) Cantonese (staff smoking and chatting outside a Chinese resteraunt) Japanese (some tourists) Urdu/Hindi (quite a lot of Indians/Pakistanis here) Edited by FuroraCeltica on 06 August 2009 at 5:30pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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