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| Iwwersetzerin Bilingual Heptaglot Senior Member Luxembourg Joined 5674 days ago 259 posts - 513 votes  Speaks: French*, Luxembourgish*, GermanC2, EnglishC2, SpanishC2, DutchC1, ItalianC1 Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 9 of 59 10 January 2013 at 8:40pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Indonesian is definitely a very uncommon language for a Luxembourger to learn. All my other languages are very common.
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| Tsopivo Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4476 days ago 258 posts - 411 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Esperanto | Message 10 of 59 10 January 2013 at 8:48pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Speaking English and wishing you'd speak Spanish is very common. In schools, English LV1 and Spanish LV2 is the most common combination too but I don't let that affect me either way. Learning on your own is a lot more uncommon though.
Oups I forgot Esperanto. That's a rather non-mainstream one. Edited by Tsopivo on 10 January 2013 at 9:12pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| pesahson Diglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5733 days ago 448 posts - 840 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: French, Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 11 of 59 10 January 2013 at 9:28pm | IP Logged | |||||
There's a standard answer in Polish for questions like that: - Po co? - Żebyś się głupio pytał/a. - What for/Why? - So you could ask me stupid questions. ;) Edited by pesahson on 10 January 2013 at 9:30pm 9 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5771 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 12 of 59 10 January 2013 at 10:36pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Exotic enough that people think I'm really smart for studying them. Common enough that people ask me if I'll learn Russian or Turkish as well, but not Tamil or Mongolian.
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| Tsopivo Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4476 days ago 258 posts - 411 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Esperanto | Message 13 of 59 10 January 2013 at 10:42pm | IP Logged | |||||
We have something similar in French : - Pourquoi tu fais ... ? - Pour faire parler les cons et ça marche (ou les curieux ou les bavards) which could roughly translate to - Why do you ... ? - To give a conversation topic to idiots and it works (literally : to make idiots talk) (or curious people or chatterboxes) 5 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| osoymar Tetraglot Pro Member United States Joined 4741 days ago 190 posts - 344 votes Speaks: English*, German, Portuguese, Japanese Studies: Spanish, French Personal Language Map | Message 14 of 59 10 January 2013 at 11:14pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I get my fair share of WWII references based on the German / Japanese combination. Good
thing I dropped Italian! 8 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5929 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 15 of 59 10 January 2013 at 11:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Hard for me to really explain. An American learning Spanish or Italian is almost too common, but the rest of my languages are unusual because I have no family ties to those languages and thus most people would find my choices strange. Edited by mick33 on 10 January 2013 at 11:48pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5014 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 16 of 59 10 January 2013 at 11:48pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Considering the forum, I am a conservative person. And quite recently I became even
quite a reasonable person (after being a dreamer :-) ) The real world: Well, many and many Czechs (under fifty, over that, it is a mainly monolingual zone) speak English. A lot speak German (many and many speak better than I do, after all it's not so hard yet). Quite a lot learn French but not that many reach any good level, not many are able to speak fluently, so I am quite an exception here (the more that I speak fluently without ever living there or studying a French degree at university). Spanish has become quite popular during last five years or so but the fraction good level speaking/all that start is similar to French. Well, and my hit list and language dreams are kept secret from vast majority of the real world for a good reason :-) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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