Walshy Triglot Senior Member Australia Joined 6939 days ago 335 posts - 365 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German
| Message 49 of 121 21 October 2009 at 7:00am | IP Logged |
A walk through uni today yielded (as it usually always does):
- Arabic.
- An Indian language, presumably Hindi.
- Mandarin.
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kyknos Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5493 days ago 103 posts - 140 votes Speaks: Slovak, Czech*, English Studies: German, Spanish
| Message 50 of 121 09 November 2009 at 1:16am | IP Logged |
- Czech (I live in Czech republic)
- Slovak (shop assistant in a local shop)
- Vietnamese (shop assistant in the other shop)
- Romani (children playing on the street)
- Russian (pretty girls in a bus)
- German (some official broadcast in subway)
- English (some official broadcast in subway, music)
- Greek (from audiocourse)
- Welsh (music Goddodin/Test Dept.)
The world is small.
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Wilco Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6327 days ago 160 posts - 247 votes Speaks: French*, English, Russian
| Message 51 of 121 09 November 2009 at 2:46pm | IP Logged |
French.
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Morak99 Newbie United States Joined 5482 days ago 19 posts - 20 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French
| Message 52 of 121 18 November 2009 at 3:55am | IP Logged |
English, French (in class), and Korean (at tie-kwon-do).
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doviende Diglot Senior Member Canada languagefixatio Joined 5983 days ago 533 posts - 1245 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Hindi, Swedish, Portuguese
| Message 53 of 121 18 November 2009 at 6:45am | IP Logged |
Mandarin (on the subway)
Cantonese (my neighbours)
Hindi (my other neighbours)
English (I live in Vancouver, Canada)
It's quite common that I also hear Spanish, Arabic, or Farsi on the subway, and occasionally German or various slavic languages that I can't distinguish, but not too often.
Ironically, although Canada is officially bilingual English/French, there are almost no French speakers at all here on the west coast. Occasionally there are some street punks that have hitch-hiked from Quebec (several thousand kilometers away), but all of the languages I mentioned above are much much more common here than French.
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ennime Tetraglot Senior Member South Africa universityofbrokengl Joined 5901 days ago 397 posts - 507 votes Speaks: English, Dutch*, Esperanto, Afrikaans Studies: Xhosa, French, Korean, Portuguese, Zulu
| Message 54 of 121 20 November 2009 at 7:56am | IP Logged |
Sesotho, Afrikaans, English, isiZulu, isiXhosa, Setswana... just gotta love uMzantsi
Afrika ^_^
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Elwing Tetraglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5505 days ago 43 posts - 51 votes Speaks: Swedish, Finnish*, English, French Studies: Norwegian
| Message 55 of 121 23 November 2009 at 9:59pm | IP Logged |
Today:
English: whenever I go outside the house
Finnish: talking with my mum
Swedish: talking with my friend and her mum
French: in my French lesson
Russian: two people in my Psychology class
Italian: in the college corridor
Quite often also other languages that my classmates speak (e.g. Czech, Lithuanian, Polish, Spanish, German) and languages you hear in college corridors (e.g. Arabic, Somali, Japanese, Chinese) but those didn't happen to come up today.
Edited by Elwing on 23 November 2009 at 9:59pm
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mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5921 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish
| Message 56 of 121 23 November 2009 at 11:09pm | IP Logged |
Yesterday I attended a religious service that was conducted almost entirely in Samoan.
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