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| geirtbr Groupie Norway Joined 6657 days ago 83 posts - 90 votes  Speaks: Norwegian* Studies: Russian | Message 1 of 22 12 April 2010 at 11:21am | IP Logged | ||
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- I thnk that to learn languages abroad, one idea might be to stay in an area where there are multiple language
groups. Not only does this give an opportunity to practice multiple languages, but there are often excellent language learning opportunities for "minority" languages". For example, in Riga you could learn Latvian and Russian, and also manage to practice English. In some areas in the US, you could learn Spanish and English, and so on. So does anyone here have tips of areas where multiple languages are practiced, and where it could be interesting to go? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5453 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 2 of 22 12 April 2010 at 12:17pm | IP Logged | ||
There are so many such areas in the world, so it would be a very long list. You must go to an area where they speak the specific languages you are interested in learning. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| chucknorrisman Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5448 days ago 321 posts - 435 votes Speaks: Korean*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, Mandarin, Lithuanian, French | Message 3 of 22 12 April 2010 at 12:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've heard that Africa is a very multilingual area. How about South Africa?
Or if you go to the Middle East, I guess you can get practices with both the Modern Standard Arabic and whatever dialect your region speaks, if you want to count them as separate languages. And if it's somewhere like Morocco, I think you could even get in some French practices as well. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Blunderstein Triglot Pro Member Sweden schackhandeln.se Joined 5418 days ago 60 posts - 82 votes Speaks: Swedish*, EnglishC2, FrenchB2 Studies: German, Esperanto Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 22 12 April 2010 at 12:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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Since you study Russian, probably the best bet would be in Russia or somewhere in the former Soviet Republics. However, for some people Russian is the language of the former oppressor, so some tact might be needed.
You might also try to find an area with many Russian immigrants. How about Svalbard or Northern Norway close to Russia (since you are in Norway)? From what I've read, there was even a Norwegian-Russian pidgin in that area a hundred years ago or so. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| robsolete Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5385 days ago 191 posts - 428 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Arabic (Written), Mandarin | Message 5 of 22 12 April 2010 at 2:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have dreams about moving to the northern tip of Morocco, where you can find people speaking Arabic, French, and Spanish on a daily basis. Would definitely make my studying a lot easier. . .
South India is another option. If you move to the area around Tirupati you're at the intersection of three states: Karnataka, Andhra (well, what used to be Andhra), and Tamil Nadu. So you'll get chances to interact with Kannada, Telugu, and Tamil speakers, as well as the usual smattering of Hindi and English. And you're only a few hours away from both Pudicherry and Goa, where you can find enclaves of French and Portuguese speakers, respectively. Or just move to New York and be hyper-sociable. You want a language? They got it there. Just gotta dig deep enough. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| datsunking1 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5585 days ago 1014 posts - 1533 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, Dutch, French | Message 6 of 22 12 April 2010 at 5:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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I also vote for NYC. Russian, German, Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese etc. You want it, they probably have it.
Cost of living is fairly high however in comparison to other places. My main concern would be job availability to support myself :) (Although if I could just live day to day around languages I would love every minute of my life) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| geirtbr Groupie Norway Joined 6657 days ago 83 posts - 90 votes Speaks: Norwegian* Studies: Russian | Message 7 of 22 12 April 2010 at 5:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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I found the us to be a rather monolingual society - I was in chicago, for example, and while all the nations of the world are represented in the city, English tend to dominate as the standard language. Only a few neighbourhoods where different. Finding non-english newspapers, for example, was relatively difficult.
(I dont know so much about official US politics, but isnt there often a aim towards assimilation on the state/federal language policies? For example, do the children of immigrants learn their native language on school, or only English?) Edited by geirtbr on 12 April 2010 at 5:58pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| vilas Pentaglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6960 days ago 531 posts - 722 votes Speaks: Spanish, Italian*, English, French, Portuguese | Message 8 of 22 12 April 2010 at 5:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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You can go in some nice spot of the world where are international communities :
Poona, Goa and many other places in India . There you can meet tons of Italians,Germans,Dutch,Israelis.... Or you can go to work in a Humanitarian Ptoject anywhere in the third world , you will meet people from all over the world. Or you go in places where multilinguism is part of the country culture like Switzerland,Belgium, Canada.... It depends on what you need to learn... 1 person has voted this message useful |
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