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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6597 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 17 of 37 03 September 2012 at 7:04pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I live in Moscow and it's quite multilingual, however I'd say you have to specifically look for native speakers of your target languages. I've heard a couple of excursions in Spanish in the metro but that's it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Hekje Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4703 days ago 842 posts - 1330 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch Studies: French, Indonesian | Message 18 of 37 03 September 2012 at 7:13pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
To clarify: it was a joke. I meant that though Rhode Island is mostly white, it's not Dutch... "white", and thus not directly helpful for studying that language. Is that what you thought I meant? Edited for clarification. Edit 2: I'm also aware that both cultures have "minority" elements. The generalization was intended to be humorous. Again, I see now that it apparently wasn't. Edited by Hekje on 03 September 2012 at 7:20pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6597 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 19 of 37 03 September 2012 at 7:31pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Yes, that's what I thought.
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| grunts67 Diglot Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5302 days ago 215 posts - 252 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Spanish, Russian | Message 20 of 37 03 September 2012 at 11:33pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I guess my city, Montreal, is as multicultural as it gets. Even when I was in high school, the ratio of foreigner vs native was somethings like 40/60%, no it's 25/75%. So pretty much any languages is findable there. Spanish, Arabic, Chinese and Vietnamese natives are very easy to find. A lot of people from Haiti and other ex-french colony in Africa also. I also know there is a small Slavic community.
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| grunts67 Diglot Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5302 days ago 215 posts - 252 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Spanish, Russian | Message 21 of 37 03 September 2012 at 11:34pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Compare to rest of Quebec, there is less minority in Quebec city than Montreal. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| ihaveacomputer Triglot Newbie Canada Joined 6833 days ago 21 posts - 52 votes Speaks: English*, Hindi, Punjabi Studies: Urdu, Italian | Message 22 of 37 04 September 2012 at 2:20am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I'm from a suburb of Toronto. You'd be hard pressed to find a more multicultural place on
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| Saim Pentaglot Senior Member AustraliaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5083 days ago 124 posts - 215 votes Speaks: Serbo-Croatian, English*, Catalan, Spanish, Polish Studies: Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, Occitan, Punjabi, Urdu, Arabic (Maghribi), French, Modern Hebrew, Ukrainian, Slovenian | Message 23 of 37 04 September 2012 at 3:59am | IP Logged | ||||||||
I thought it was humorous! Although I'm only half-white, so maybe I wouldn't get offended anyway? 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7156 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 24 of 37 04 September 2012 at 4:12am | IP Logged | ||||||||
This seems to be an urban legend per the lengthy explanation here (see under "Examples" for the sound-bite of this explanation) However it is a pretty multicultural city from I remember of my visits there. London and New York however by their sheer size would likely be more multicultural than Toronto though (they certainly impressed me with that vibe when I've visited them). 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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