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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes  4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 9 of 25 05 April 2013 at 8:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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Kraków seemed pretty good to me, with tourists from Italy, Spain, Russia, Germany. But I personally liked Wrocław more.
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| osoymar Tetraglot Pro Member United States Joined 4737 days ago 190 posts - 344 votes Speaks: English*, German, Portuguese, Japanese Studies: Spanish, French Personal Language Map | Message 10 of 25 05 April 2013 at 10:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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It's unclear to me exactly what we're discussing or why, but as always when asked about
multilingual cities, I'll stick up for Los Angeles. English and Spanish are king and queen, of course, but we also boast (if I recall correctly) the largest concentration of Korean and Armenian outside their respective homelands, as well as a significant amount of Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Tagalog, Russian, Persian, Vietnamese (especially if you include the neighboring Orange County), Hebrew and Yiddish. To focus on one of my languages, there are several Japanese communities throughout the county, numerous museums and bookstores (including second-hand bookstores, so I don't have to pay fourteen bucks for one lousy manga), great Japanese food, and cultural events throughout the year. Also, sitting in your car isn't so bad when you have L2 podcasts, audiobooks and other audio learning materials. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| aokoye Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5542 days ago 235 posts - 453 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Dutch, Norwegian, Japanese | Message 11 of 25 05 April 2013 at 11:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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As far as official language status goes, as the US doesn't have an official language
though a few states have made English their official language. With that in mind, most any major in the US. I don't know exactly what you mean by "a direct benefit over another" though. Do you mean from a sociological perspective, economic etc. I would also totally go with Mumbai as India has a rather large number of languages spoken though the only official language (currently is Hindi. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| gogglehead Triglot Senior Member Argentina Joined 6076 days ago 248 posts - 320 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Russian, Italian | Message 12 of 25 06 April 2013 at 8:32am | IP Logged | ||
Agreed. Toronto doesn´t even come close, different league altogether. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| modus.irrealis Bilingual Triglot Newbie Canada Joined 5879 days ago 29 posts - 37 votes Speaks: English*, Greek*, French Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Danish, Turkish | Message 13 of 25 06 April 2013 at 10:30am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm biased, since I come from Toronto, but I really doubt New York or London is more multilingual than Toronto. I wonder why people think this.
Here are some stats though from the City of Toronto: http://www.toronto.ca/toronto_facts/diversity.htm : Half of Toronto's population was born outside of Canada, 47% have a native language other than English or French, 31% have a home language other than English or French. I know from experience that you can live your daily life without using English (as some of the older members of my family still do with Greek). Of course English does dominate, but is this any less true in New York or London? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| stelingo Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5833 days ago 722 posts - 1076 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Czech, Polish, Greek, Mandarin | Message 14 of 25 06 April 2013 at 2:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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Doing a google search for 'most linguistic diverse city in the world' brings up results for New York (800 languages), London (300) and much to my surprise my own home city of Manchester (UK) (153)
I quote: 3. Manchester, England If you take its size into consideration, Manchester is the most linguistically diverse city in the world. The city’s 503,000 inhabitants speak at least 153 different languages. Compared to much bigger cities such as Paris and New York, this number is massive. It is believed that two-thirds of children in Mancherster speak two languages, which include Chitralli, Konkani (both spoken in India), Dagaare (spoken in Ghana and Burkina Faso) and Uyghur (spoken in northwest China). The Culture Vulture No mention of Toronto, I'm afraid. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4669 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 15 of 25 06 April 2013 at 2:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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Oslo is pretty international.
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| Traki Newbie Australia Joined 4251 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, French | Message 16 of 25 06 April 2013 at 8:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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How about Luxembourg City? Luxembourgish, German and French all official languages and regularly used, English is widely known and there are also a lot of Portuguese speakers. etc. etc.
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