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| benzionisrael Triglot Groupie Spain Joined 4656 days ago 79 posts - 142 votes  Speaks: English*, Japanese, SpanishB2 | Message 1 of 5 22 April 2012 at 6:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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Recently, with the east-west divide no more, many Eastern European people have immigrated to Western European countries. This gives us an incentive to learn the languages of these populations.
I myself have great interest in the Slavic language family. So far I have only dabbled in Russian and Serbo-Croatian and don´t yet speak any of them fluently, but as a learning goal I would like to learn several of them to fluency. Which Slavic immigrants are more numerous by each Western European country? In the United Kingdom Polish immigrants are the largest Slavic speaking immigrant group. For someone living in the UK, I believe that Polish would be an excellent choice as a first Slavic language. In Spain it seems that Bulgarians are the largest Slavic speaking group. Russians also have a presence there but seem less numerous than Bulgarian immigrants. Who are the largest Slavic immigrant groups in other European countries like Italy, France, Portugal, Germany, etc...? 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| clang Groupie United States Joined 5330 days ago 54 posts - 82 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Italian | Message 2 of 5 22 April 2012 at 6:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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In Italy, Spain, and Portugal (and other places) you will find a lot of Moldovan immigrants who likely speak Russian
and sometimes even Ukrainian. Almost 40% of Moldova's GDP is from remittances from these countries and Russia. Edited by clang on 22 April 2012 at 6:33pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Cabaire Senior Member Germany Joined 5590 days ago 725 posts - 1352 votes | Message 3 of 5 22 April 2012 at 11:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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In Germany there are huge numbers of "Aussiedler", historically ethnic German immigrants to Germany, mainly from Russia. They are far more numerous than the working commuters from the Slavic central Europe. Therefore I would vote for Russian in Germany, if only heads counts.
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| Hoppy Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4606 days ago 26 posts - 32 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian | Message 4 of 5 23 April 2012 at 2:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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Where I live in the United States (Michigan) there's a lot of recently-arrived Russian-speaking immigrants. Historically there have a lot of Poles as well, but they've been here for so long that they don't speak Polish any more.
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| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5444 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 5 of 5 23 April 2012 at 10:55pm | IP Logged | ||
I think the Poles are the largest group here in Norway too. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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