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| elvisrules Tetraglot Senior Member BelgiumRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5471 days ago 286 posts - 390 votes  Speaks: French, English*, Dutch, Flemish Studies: Lowland Scots, Japanese, German | Message 1 of 18 07 January 2010 at 5:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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Places where you would speak a number of languages fluenty just from being educated there. All the languages should enjoy regular use or exposure. Preferable including at least 1 or 2 big languages.
I was having a think about this and it seems to be mostly small European countries I could think of: Andorra (Catalan, Spanish, French, English?) Luxembourg (Luxembourgish, French, German, English) Malta (Maltese, English, Italian) Maybe there are much better examples, but I can't think of any. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7158 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 2 of 18 07 January 2010 at 5:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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You may want to check out this thread from the Polyglots sub-forum.
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=305&PN=5 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Woodpecker Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5813 days ago 351 posts - 590 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), Arabic (Egyptian) Studies: Arabic (classical) | Message 3 of 18 07 January 2010 at 5:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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Most people in West Africa grow up knowing at least two, and sometimes as many as five or six, languages in total. A friend of mine from Ghana spoke English at school, studied French to a fair level, speaks a language called Fra-Fra with his family, and knows the two most common African languages spoken in Ghana, Asante Twi and Ga, as well. So 4.5? Not bad for an 18-year-old. He's a Muslim too, so he probably knows at least a little bit of Arabic.
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| trance0 Pentaglot Groupie Slovenia Joined 5752 days ago 52 posts - 78 votes Speaks: Slovenian*, English, German, Croatian, Serbian | Message 4 of 18 07 January 2010 at 5:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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I believe Luxemburg wins hands down here. You will probably know French, German, Luxemburgish and very likely also English if you start your education there from young age onwards.
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| ChrisVincent Bilingual Tetraglot Newbie Mauritius quicklearn.t35.com Joined 5437 days ago 23 posts - 33 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Italian, Spanish Studies: German | Message 5 of 18 07 January 2010 at 5:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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There's India as well.
Many people there speak fluently hindi, English, tamil and sometimes marathi. Moreover, if someone can speak hindi, he can speak urdu. It's only the way that it is written that is different. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6911 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 6 of 18 07 January 2010 at 8:03pm | IP Logged | ||
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multilingual_countries_ and_regions 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5840 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian | Message 7 of 18 07 January 2010 at 10:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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Some of the areas around Poland/Ukraine/Baltic States/Belarus aren't bad either.
They have changed hands so many times, people moved around and borders were changed... As a result some areas are a mix of Polish, Baltic Language, Russian and perhaps Ukrainian. For some reason people in these areas seem to get really good at German as a foreign language and/or Russian. I once knew someone who had learnt Polish, Lithuanian and Russian in childhood, then German in her teens (and eventually Swedish). She thought nothing of it, yet they are quite different languages. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| magictom123 Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5595 days ago 272 posts - 365 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French | Message 8 of 18 07 January 2010 at 10:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think most people who I know if asked this question would quickly come back with
Holland. It may be a misconception, but it seems an awful lot of dutch people speak English, and with the close proximity to German maybe that as well. One time on holiday in France I came across a Dutch gentleman who claimed he spoke 7 languages (he was drunk at the time although I believe it quite possible). 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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