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How common is your language combination?
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sammymcgoff
Groupie
United Kingdom
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Speaks: English*
Studies: Polish

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10 January 2013 at 5:41pm | IP Logged

Just a quick question for all in the forum. How common do you feel is the combination of languages you speak or are learning? I feel that although the English/Polish combination is common amongst Poles, it isn't too common amongst those whose first language is English. I am also intending to learn Afrikaans once I'm fluent in Polish, so that will be an unusual trio for a Brit!
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Chung
Diglot
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Speaks: English*, French
Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish

Message 2 of 59

10 January 2013 at 5:58pm | IP Logged

I've got looks that scream "WTF?" from my friends or family about my languages (if they react at all).
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sammymcgoff
Groupie
United Kingdom
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Speaks: English*
Studies: Polish

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10 January 2013 at 6:00pm | IP Logged

I got the same from my friend at university yesterday. He was like "Why are you learning Polish?"
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sans-serif
Tetraglot
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Finland
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Speaks: Finnish*, English, German, Swedish
Studies: Danish

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10 January 2013 at 6:30pm | IP Logged

My languages, with the possible exception of Japanese, are about as mainstream as you can get over here, though I've probably studied one or two languages more than is considered normal. Then there's Danish and Norwegian, which I've only recently begun dabbling with, so I'm reluctant to include them in my 'combination'.
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sammymcgoff
Groupie
United Kingdom
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Speaks: English*
Studies: Polish

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10 January 2013 at 6:37pm | IP Logged

sans-serif wrote:

I consider mine unusual as most Brits tend to go for French, Spanish, German etc, so Polish and Afrikaans are quite rare
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stifa
Triglot
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Norway
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Speaks: Norwegian*, English^C2, German
Studies: Japanese, Spanish

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10 January 2013 at 7:18pm | IP Logged

German is one of the common "school languages" and Japanese is popular among the weebs,
though they never really make it past the A1 mark.
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cathrynm
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United States
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Speaks: English*
Studies: Japanese, Finnish

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10 January 2013 at 7:39pm | IP Logged

Rare in the USA, but in Finland, there must be hundreds of people, maybe thousands who speak Japanese, Finnish and English. I run into them all the time, it's almost freaky, and mostly all these guys are way better than me. Also Finnish language has some minor interest in Japan, just based on the learning websites in Japanese for Finnish.
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Julie
Heptaglot
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Speaks: Polish*, English^B2, German^C2, Spanish^B2, Dutch, Swedish, French

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10 January 2013 at 7:42pm | IP Logged

sans-serif wrote:

My languages (...) are about as mainstream as you can get over here, though I've probably studied one or two languages more than is considered normal.

That's exactly what I have to say about my 'Speaks' languages. :)

Swedish is less common, though, although it still seems to be the most popular Scandinavian language here.

Dutch is less common, too but I don't really study it at the moment.

And no, I don't choose my languages based on how popular they are :), and I dabbled in some non-mainstream ones (by the popular definition - for Chung, they would be pretty mainstream ;)).

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