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| Clintaroo Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 6871 days ago 189 posts - 201 votes  Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Tagalog, Indonesian | Message 25 of 39 08 January 2007 at 5:30pm | IP Logged |
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Japan: Phrasebook Japanese, English, Italian with some guy I met in Tokyo
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| FM_Moltke Bilingual Tetraglot Groupie Germany Joined 6619 days ago 54 posts - 58 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, German, French Studies: Polish, Latin | Message 26 of 39 24 January 2007 at 1:33pm | IP Logged |
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In order of most used to least used:
Canada: English, French China: Mandarin, English Germany: German, English United States: English Austria: German, English France: English, French Czech Republic: English, German 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| sapedro Triglot Senior Member Portugal descredito.blogspot. Joined 7118 days ago 216 posts - 219 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, French Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Greek | Message 27 of 39 26 January 2007 at 3:14am | IP Logged |
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In the next months I am going to Ireland, Finland and Estonia, and I don't expect using anything else than English unless I have the time for a little Finnish :P
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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 28 of 39 29 April 2007 at 8:28am | IP Logged |
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Going to France and Germany soon, in France I'll probably use only English (maybe also Latin, hahahaha) and hopefully I'll speak German in Germany, switching to English whenever needed..
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| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6439 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 29 of 39 29 April 2007 at 10:52am | IP Logged |
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Canada: English, -tiny- bits of French and Italian
Switzerland: English, Italian, French, German, Japanese, Persian, Dutch, Turkish [+ Esperanto and Swedish online while I've been in Switzerland, and occasional reading of and exposure Spanish, Portuguese, Serbian, Romanian, etc without much/any active use, plus listening to web and satellite radio in several other languages occasionally]. Italy: Italian, English, French, German (overheard Japanese, but haven't used it) Czech Republic: English, Czech, German Morocco: English, French, Arabic, plus goofing around at a carpet shop and speaking a mixture of everything any of the dozen or so people in it spoke, including fractured basic Japanese - the shopkeepers knew at least a few phrases of most major languages. Japan: Japanese, English, French France: English, French Germany (airport): English, German England: English USA: English, listened to Spanish TV but didn't speak it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6470 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 30 of 39 29 April 2007 at 11:18am | IP Logged |
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Germany (home country): all of my serious languages including Esperanto, Modern Greek and Latin. Specifically, I also spoke all my serious languages in the course of one week at the Internacia Seminario (Esperanto youth meeting) in Paderborn.
Denmark (holiday with my family as a kid): German Britain: English France (holiday with my family): German, French, English Italy (student exchange): Italian, very little German Quebec / Canada (holiday at a host family): French, English, German, Esperanto Austria (airport): German, Chinese China (intensive language course): mostly Chinese, some Esperanto, some English, German with fellow exchange pupils as private language while bargaining except one of the saleswomen at Xiu Shui actually understood! Czech Republic (1-week seminar): Esperanto, a little German USA (holiday): English, Esperanto and German with my American boyfriend when we didn't want people to understand 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6142 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 31 of 39 07 December 2008 at 1:00pm | IP Logged |
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USA: English, Spanish (I live here)
Canada: English Mexico: Spanish Belize: English Guatemala: Spanish Costa Rica: Spanish Jamaica: English Dominican Republic: Spanish France: English (I was 6 at the time and spoke no French) Germany: English Czech Republic: English, Greek (we were with a tour group from Greece), attempts at Czech Greece: English, Greek, Spanish (conversing with my cousin who can speak it) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Asiafeverr Diglot Senior Member Hong Kong Joined 6342 days ago 346 posts - 431 votes 1 sounds Speaks: French*, English Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, German | Message 32 of 39 08 December 2008 at 12:35am | IP Logged |
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Canada: French, English
Mainland China: Mandarin, Cantonese, English Hong Kong: Cantonese, Mandarin, English Germany: English, German, French United States: English Austria: German, English France: French, English Czech Republic: German Italy: English, French Russia: English 1 person has voted this message useful |
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