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| shk00design Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4444 days ago 747 posts - 1123 votes  Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin Studies: French | Message 17 of 19 11 May 2014 at 3:37am | IP Logged |
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The place I'm living the 2 official languages are English & French. Some of the job postings are bilingual in these 2
languages. Unless you work at a call centre serving other ethnic communities like the Chinese and Hispanics, French would be the second choice. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| eyðimörk Triglot Senior Member France goo.gl/aT4FY7 Joined 4099 days ago 490 posts - 1158 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French Studies: Breton, Italian | Message 18 of 19 11 May 2014 at 11:38am | IP Logged |
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Not to be a spoilsport, but it's kind of a futile exercise unless you are living in a monolingual country that happens to speak your native language.
My native language has to be Swedish, since it's the only one that is technically my native language (even though I have been speaking English for almost as long and have anglophone schooling with English as a native language coursework). And if I could only speak one foreign language, it would have to be French. It's not my favourite (Breton is), but I live in the Republic of France, which only has one language. So do many of the Englishmen I've met there who don't speak French, of course, but they don't run a business there with all that comes with it. Of course, I'd have to start a whole different kind of business if I couldn't speak English. The other option is to speak English instead of French and move back to Scotland, but English is even less of a favourite language than French. I can't even wrap my head around this kind of thinking because more than one foreign language is a practical necessity. Love of certain languages doesn't factor in until a few languages later. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| zografialep Hexaglot Groupie GreeceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4139 days ago 41 posts - 71 votes Speaks: Ancient Greek, Greek*, EnglishC2, GermanB2, Spanish, Latin Studies: Russian | Message 19 of 19 11 May 2014 at 12:24pm | IP Logged |
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Greek- my native- and Russian, because it's beautiful, very useful and incrediby hard for
non-natives to learn. Plus, by speaking it you get a hang of most Slavic languages! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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