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| Saif Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5615 days ago 122 posts - 208 votes  Speaks: English*, Arabic (Levantine)*, French | Message 65 of 121 06 February 2010 at 6:43am | IP Logged | |||||
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I live in Ft. Lauderdale (South Florida).
1. English 2. Arabic (spoke with parents) 3. Haitian Creole (Cab driver speaking. Ft. Lauderdale has a large Haitian community.) 4. Spanish (people in restaurants and on the streets... it's South Florida) 5. Portuguese (Brazilian neighbors) 6. Vietnamese (boss at work on phone with his wife) 7. Cantonese (coworker on phone) 8. Korean (coworkers speaking to each other) 9. French (spoke with friend that lives in Canada) 10. German (spoke with uncle who lives in Germany. Instead of speaking Arabic, I wanted to practice my German) Internet: Listened to Serbo-Croatian, Turkish, and Russian music. Edited by Saif on 06 February 2010 at 6:47am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Wilco Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6333 days ago 160 posts - 247 votes Speaks: French*, English, Russian | Message 66 of 121 10 February 2010 at 6:32pm | IP Logged | |||||
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French.
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| Aineko Triglot Senior Member New Zealand Joined 5451 days ago 238 posts - 442 votes Speaks: Serbian*, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Mandarin | Message 67 of 121 27 February 2010 at 8:52am | IP Logged | |||||
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Nepali. a lot of it :)
I've started volunteering for refugee service, supporting families that have been resettled in my town. 'My' family arrived yesterday night and I've spent few hours today with them and other families. I've never before experienced immersion in the language I know nothing about. This is great experience, I'm amazed by how easy it is to pick up words in situation where you actually need them. In this short time I've picked up things like hello, thank you, how are you, I, you, come, OK, let's go...It is just impossible for me to describe it, but when you are with the 15 months old kid that does not respond to English, you need to be told only once how to say 'come'... I am starting to think that this is the opportunity of a lifetime and that I should maybe put languages I'm studying on hold (or at least to slow down my learning) and learn as much Nepali as I can in next few months, during my volunteering. I don't have to mention that people I've met are more than ready to teach me their language :). 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Johntm Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5425 days ago 616 posts - 725 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 68 of 121 02 March 2010 at 5:19am | IP Logged | |||||
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I live in the Southern US. This list could be for any average day:
English (obviously) Spanish (I know plenty of Spanish speakers and am currently listening to Spanish music) Latin (Latin class. ugh.) Edit: Sometimes I hear Farsi/Persian. Some families that train at the same taekwondo club as me speak to each other in it. And Korean, although only words pertaining to taekwondo. Edited by Johntm on 02 March 2010 at 5:21am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| kyssäkaali Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5556 days ago 203 posts - 376 votes Speaks: English*, Finnish | Message 69 of 121 05 March 2010 at 4:24am | IP Logged | |||||
Lol I hear you there. I also live in the deep south and here it's just English and Spanish. I hear horrificly-pronounced French words in my ballet classes but that about does it. Such a monolingual environment is just so suffocating to me. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5384 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 70 of 121 05 March 2010 at 5:13am | IP Logged | |||||
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Today, I heard French, English, Moroccan Arabic and Mandarin Chinese. Oh, and we listened
to some Corsican music! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Johntm Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5425 days ago 616 posts - 725 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 71 of 121 05 March 2010 at 5:16am | IP Logged | |||||
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| Gareth Groupie United States Joined 5461 days ago 51 posts - 67 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Cherokee, French | Message 72 of 121 05 March 2010 at 5:33am | IP Logged | |||||
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Spainish-on the radio and T.V. Arabic-I coudn't place the dialect but it sounded like MSA(heard at college) Polish or Russian-I only identified the endings (heard at college) Cherokee- heard in class
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