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| cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5824 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes  Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian | Message 57 of 121 23 November 2009 at 11:28pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I heard a Western European language I couldn't quite identify today...
Two people sat on the bus behind me. They look like Danes or Dutch people from their faces, height and clothing style. The language sounded Germanic, but it definitely wasn't German, Dutch or any Scandinavian language (all of which I can very easily tell apart). That leaves some kind of very strong German or Dutch regional dialect (I don't know much about that) or maybe Luxembourgish which I wouldn't be able to spot either. I was able to understand a fraction of what they were saying but I don't know how. This is a real mystery.. I am very intrigued. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7001 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 58 of 121 25 November 2009 at 6:45pm | IP Logged | |||||
Perhaps you should have politely asked them what language they were speaking :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5824 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian | Message 59 of 121 25 November 2009 at 9:04pm | IP Logged | |||||
Yes, Well I guess I could have but.... I didn't really think of that, and they were sitting behind me at the bus, involved in a discussion. I would have had to interrupt and would have seemed rather nosy I think! Plus incidentally, I've been asked a few times what language I speak when I speak Swedish abroad with friends or family. People who ask about that usually have an agenda. They want to be your guide or chat you up or something... Last time was on the Eurostar with my sister. A guy appeared out of the blue and "guessed" that we were Czech.. We got mildly irritated because obviously Czech sounds nothing like Swedish plus both she and I look very Nordic (not Central EUropean), so his guess was quite far off the mark. As a chat up line it was 1/10... Hehe 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| aionis Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5454 days ago 3 posts - 6 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian | Message 60 of 121 08 December 2009 at 2:59am | IP Logged | |||||
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Today, around my neighborhood and on campus, I heard English, Mandarin, Spanish and Korean.
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| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5467 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 61 of 121 08 December 2009 at 8:05am | IP Logged | |||||
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This thread is a little old but I think it would be fun to see how many different languages people hear each and everyday.
For me today: Hungarian- from a friend talking on the phone German- speaking to one of my teachers who speaks German too :D Polish- Another friend talking on the phone Russian- little listening, here and there Czech- Speaking a little with my friend English- (of course) Spanish- a Spanish student speaking to their teacher French- Another friend speaking to their parent It really is quite amazing when you think about it. I don't think twice about it I guess. Edited by ruskivyetr on 08 December 2009 at 8:05am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5910 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 62 of 121 31 December 2009 at 11:49pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Sunday I heard a little bit of Danish and Hawaiian.
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| Woodpecker Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5797 days ago 351 posts - 590 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), Arabic (Egyptian) Studies: Arabic (classical) | Message 63 of 121 01 January 2010 at 12:17am | IP Logged | |||||
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My family is visiting me in Egypt right now and I took them to the Pyramids today, where I heard a fantastic array of languages. I know for certain that I heard three dialects of Arabic, French, German, English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Italian, some form of Chinese, Japanese, and some Eastern European language, and I heard a few snatches of something that was Romance but I couldn't place; I would guess it was Portuguese. Oh, and there was some Norwegian as well. Pretty international crowd...
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| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6754 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 64 of 121 01 January 2010 at 3:46am | IP Logged | |||||
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On New Year's Eve, I heard Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, and Cebuano all day.
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