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It's a small country with several linguistically distinct ethnic groups (East Indians, Chinese, Africans), a national lingua franca (Mauritian Creole), English for an official language, and French as the language of media and commerce. Edited by Captain Haddock on 09 October 2006 at 7:50am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6706 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 50 of 51 09 October 2006 at 11:58am | IP Logged | ||
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The explanation for Latvia is simply that half the population speaks Latvian, the other half speaks Russian, and yet they somehow have to live together. Estonia and Lithuania have the same problem, but not as bad.
For the Scandinavian countries which are more homogeneous (in spite of Swedish speaking Finns and the immigrants) you have to search other explanations. Being relatively small countries clearly is a factor (tiny Luxembourg is apparently even more polyglot), but I would also think that undertitling TV films (instad of dubbing them) is a factor, plus of course the fact that the Scandinavians travel a lot. As for the Australians I would have expected a slightly higher number because of immigration from Asia, but maybe the numbers are still too low? Edited by Iversen on 09 October 2006 at 12:01pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
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I must say, I've never met a Caucasian Australian who spoke a second language. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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