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What city/town do you live in?
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Brun Ugle
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Message 65 of 123

15 September 2012 at 1:13pm | IP Logged

I live in Steinkjer, Norway, the exact center of the country. However, several places claim to be in the center and depending how you measure it, they're all right.

If there are any fellow language-lovers in the area, or passing through, I would love to meet up no matter what your target languages are. It would be fun just to meet people who see language learning as something fun rather than a necessary evil.
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stifa
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Message 66 of 123

15 September 2012 at 3:14pm | IP Logged

I live only three hours away from Steinkjer, but I'm leaving the country five days from
now. The place is called Storfosna and is in Ørland kommune, which is at the end of the
Fosen penninsula.
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sctroyenne
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Message 67 of 123

16 September 2012 at 9:02pm | IP Logged

I'm back in the SF Bay Area after some time in Paris (and a stint in L.A.). It's a pretty
good spot for languages for the US with it's diverse population, consulates, and cultural
centers.
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Arekkusu
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Message 68 of 123

17 September 2012 at 4:24pm | IP Logged

tommus wrote:

Arekkusu wrote:

I'm in Winnipeg, Manitoba

I lived for a year in Winnipeg in 1977. Very cold in the winter! At that time, there was a very vibrant French-Canadian community, mainly in St. Boniface. Excellent French cuisine. I see in Wikipedia that 11 percent of Winnipeggers speak both English and French, and 0.1% speak only French. And it says that more than 100 languages are spoken in Winnipeg. So it must be a good place for language learning.

Actually, 88% are unilingual English speakers and, as you pointed out, the vast majority of the rest are French speakers. If there are 100 languages, they are spoken by small groups of people...
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Josquin
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Message 69 of 123

17 September 2012 at 6:36pm | IP Logged

Tübingen, Germany. A rather small but beautiful university town south of Stuttgart.
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commo
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Message 70 of 123

17 September 2012 at 6:59pm | IP Logged

Arekkusu wrote:

I'm in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Originally from Sorel, Québec.

Sorel,Québec...That's a very small town isn't it? By any chance do you know Marc-Andre Fleury, goalkeeper of the Pittsburgh Penguins?
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Coheed
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Message 71 of 123

17 September 2012 at 7:00pm | IP Logged

aodhanc wrote:

Coheed wrote:

Montreal. The English capital of francophony.

What do you mean by English capital of the francophonie?

The official language is French, yet 13% of the population only speaks english, + 30% of
immigrants who mostly speak English, and that's not counting the tourists who also speak
english to get by.

Edited by Coheed on 17 September 2012 at 7:02pm
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espejismo
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Message 72 of 123

18 September 2012 at 7:34am | IP Logged

tommus wrote:

Arekkusu wrote:

I'm in Winnipeg, Manitoba

I knew a family from Mexico, where the father was Ukrainian and the mother Mexican, who won the Canadian immigration lottery and chose to move to Winnipeg because the local Ukrainian community promised to help them settle in. It says on Wikipedia that 15.4% of Winnipeggers are ethnic Ukrainians, but only 3.1% of the population speaks Ukrainian, probably because the majority of Ukrainians arrived there in the beginning of the 20th century.

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