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| stephen_g Groupie Canada Joined 6331 days ago 44 posts - 84 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Italian | Message 9 of 43 24 April 2009 at 6:03am | IP Logged |
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The Greater Toronto Area:
English French Punjabi Cantonese Mandarin There are other languages with a significant presence, but I wouldn't include them on this list. Italian, for example, is the most spoken language at work apart from English, but the vast majority of Italian speakers in the area are now bilingual. French is useful for employment and the last three are important when dealing with immigrant groups that still have a significant number of members who are not comfortably bilingual. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| robertdover8 Groupie United States Joined 6022 days ago 43 posts - 42 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 10 of 43 24 April 2009 at 9:35am | IP Logged |
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San Jose, California
1) English of coarse 2) Spanish 3) Vietnamese 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| JasonBourne Groupie United States Joined 5754 days ago 65 posts - 111 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Japanese, Arabic (Written), Turkish | Message 11 of 43 25 April 2009 at 4:22am | IP Logged |
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In Minnesota...
1. English 2. Spanish 3. Somali 4. Hmong 5. Swahili Interesting lineup, eh? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5926 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 12 of 43 28 April 2009 at 1:20am | IP Logged |
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In Washington state, it would probably be
1. English 2. Spanish 3. Korean 4. Japanese 5. Vietnamese or maybe Mandarin A few months ago I saw an advertisement requesting translators that also knew the following languages: Arabic, Portuguese, Russian and Ukrainian, but I think the first five languages above are far more common. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Russianbear Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6777 days ago 358 posts - 422 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, Ukrainian Studies: Spanish | Message 13 of 43 28 April 2009 at 5:30pm | IP Logged |
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My own subjective guess for NYC would be:
1)English 2)Spanish 3)Russian 4)Mandarin 5)Korean or Italian or French Creole. Edited by Russianbear on 28 April 2009 at 5:38pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Olekander Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5885 days ago 122 posts - 136 votes Speaks: English*, French, Russian | Message 14 of 43 28 April 2009 at 8:01pm | IP Logged |
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In the Hampshire region of England, UK
English and sign language (impressive on a c.v) Polish (The greater part of immigrants) French (Very close by for a cheap holiday) Arabic (if you want to write a complaignt to a mosque lloll, no seriously there are a lot of speakers here) Chinese (again immigrants) So as you can see, the main immigrant languages in my country are Polish, Urdu, Arabic, Bengali, Punjabi, Chinese. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| LittleKey Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5954 days ago 146 posts - 153 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Japanese | Message 15 of 43 29 April 2009 at 3:14am | IP Logged |
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Southern California:
1. English 2. Spanish 3. Farsi 4. Russian 5. Japanese I'm not sure about the last two, but the first three I hear every day. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| guesto Groupie Australia Joined 5743 days ago 76 posts - 118 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 16 of 43 29 April 2009 at 6:30am | IP Logged |
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You all seem to be listing the languages most widely spoken by immigrants. But are these the "best" languages for someone to learn? You might have more chances to speak it, but it might be utterly useless for employment for example.
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