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How common is your language combination?
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Zireael
Triglot
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Poland
Joined 4652 days ago
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Speaks: Polish*, English^B2, Spanish
Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English

Message 57 of 59

26 February 2013 at 8:55am | IP Logged

p.nezinia wrote:

Lithuanian Sign language is something that always surprises people I meet. The linguists have only started digging in it in 1996, and most people over here still have no clue of what it is. I keep hearing such things as "oooh, that hand-language-of-the-mutes" or "how come it's Lithuanian if it's international?". But the funniest thing is when people think that I speak Estonian (estų kalba) instead of sign language (gestų kalba).

By the way, what I miss in this forum on the profile section is the distinction of International Sign and the local Sign languages. :)

Polish Sign Language (I only know bits'n'pieces) gets the game sort of reactions, minus the Estonian thing :)
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Melya68
Diglot
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France
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Speaks: French*, English

Message 58 of 59

26 February 2013 at 1:28pm | IP Logged

French/English is extremely common.
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Ari
Heptaglot
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Norway
Joined 6583 days ago
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Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese
Studies: Czech, Latin, German

Message 59 of 59

27 February 2013 at 7:06am | IP Logged

Mandarin/Any language is of course a very common combination, and the same goes for French, English and Spanish. Mandarin/Cantonese is also very common, but only for native Canto speakers (few Mandarin speakers bother to learn Cantonese, even when living in Cantonese speaking areas). Lately I've started to be a little Thai-curious and that should make my combos a bit less common if I take it up in a serious manner, I guess. Thai/Cantonese is probably not that common, even though there are a surprising number of similarities between the languages.

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