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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5558 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 9 of 28 26 August 2013 at 4:33am | IP Logged | ||
Cambridge is a wonderful melting pot of cultures and students from all around the world. Cambridge University's Anglo-Japanese Society (not to mention its Russian and Scandinavian Societies) are great places to meet new people and get in some language practice at the same time (or in my case, when words fail but gestures rule, get in the drinks ;) ). It's always a good idea to look out for university and college societies in any major international city, even if you're not a student, as there can often be lots of opportunities for immersion right on your very doorstep. Edited by Teango on 26 August 2013 at 4:34am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| patrickwilken Senior Member Germany radiant-flux.net Joined 4535 days ago 1546 posts - 3200 votes Studies: German | Message 10 of 28 26 August 2013 at 8:54am | IP Logged | ||
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Los Angeles and anywhere in the US with large Latino populations for Spanish/English.
Berlin and other German cities for German/Turkish. Melbourne and Sydney for Vietnamese/Greek/Italian etc /English. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4709 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 11 of 28 26 August 2013 at 9:20am | IP Logged | ||
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Brussels for Dutch/French yes
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| BlaBla Triglot Groupie Spain Joined 4131 days ago 45 posts - 72 votes Speaks: German*, English, French Studies: Nepali, Spanish, Dutch, Mandarin | Message 12 of 28 26 August 2013 at 9:44am | IP Logged | ||
I'm currently in Salzburg and if Brazil holds the largest Japanese pop. outside of Japan, this little town must come second, lol. Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, many students of music among them, Turks, generally people from all over the Balcan, lots of Italians (all neighbors) plus tourists from pretty much all over the world. It's not much different in Vienna. Then Bangkok and some of Thailand's islands come to my mind, especially the area around Khao San Rd. People from almost everywhere + all the second hand book stores and the huge variety of phrase books. Another one of my favorite hotspots is Siliguri in northeast India: Nepali, Bangla (Bengali), Hindi, Tibetan, Bhutia (Sikkimese), Dzongkha (Bhutanese), Asamiya (Assamese) + a huge number of other Indian and Nepali languages and dialects + of course English. Most people I met there were basically fluent in at least two or three languages and happy to teach you some words. A wonderful place in my book. And then there's magic Kathmandu but I better stop here :) Edited by BlaBla on 26 August 2013 at 9:49am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| beano Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4624 days ago 1049 posts - 2152 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian, Serbian, Hungarian | Message 13 of 28 26 August 2013 at 10:19am | IP Logged | ||
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Most people in Luxembourg speak French, German and the Luxembourg dialect. English too is widespread.
I've also heard that there are many people in South Africa who speak multiple languages. As many as six, apparently. Edited by beano on 26 August 2013 at 10:19am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6705 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 14 of 28 26 August 2013 at 12:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have visited many of the places which allegedly should be good places for multilingual immersion, but to use that 'hidden' multilinguism is not as straightforward as some would have it - unless you have the kind of mentality that allows you to walk up of strangers and speak to them in whatever language you have heard them speak. For instance I am sure that there are hundreds of languages represented among people living in London, but for me as a tourist it is basically a monoglot city.
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| Tsopivo Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4473 days ago 258 posts - 411 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Esperanto | Message 15 of 28 27 August 2013 at 2:27am | IP Logged | ||
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While London, Cambridge or other multicultural towns make it a lot easier to find native speakers to converse with and offer many other opportunities they are essentially monolingual towns and I think it does not compare to a truly bilingual or multilingual town if we are talking about immersion.
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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5011 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 16 of 28 27 August 2013 at 3:20am | IP Logged | ||
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Not Switzerland. Having seen separate monolingual groups of the Swiss in Berlin, I totally lost my naive ideas of every Swiss being at least bilingual. Perhaps a larger city would work, just as anywhere else. But as others said, only if you have the kind of attitude, courage and some luck.
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