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| Rivso Diglot Groupie FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4689 days ago 41 posts - 50 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Dutch, Japanese | Message 9 of 17 23 November 2011 at 6:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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About 98% of the people I know here in Bretagne (in france) could most likely only be guided in french, seeing as languages don't seem to really be a priority here.
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| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 4846 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 10 of 17 23 November 2011 at 8:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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I could be guided in English and Spanish, similar to my countrymen. I could personally also be guided in a pinch in German and Finnish. I might be slow, but I"d get it. Plus, with actual guiding, all the seeing and doing is great for getting context.
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| georgiqg Triglot Newbie Spain Joined 4716 days ago 36 posts - 50 votes Speaks: Bulgarian*, Spanish, English Studies: German, Russian | Message 11 of 17 23 November 2011 at 11:51pm | IP Logged | ||
Originally, the question was...
...but it somehow turned into "Which foreign languages could YOU be guided in?". I'm going to answer about my country, which is Bulgaria. A group of randomly picked people from Bulgaria, could be guided in: - English, if they're younger than 40 yo, approx. - Russian, if they're older. - Bulgarian, of course. - Everybody would also understand Macedonian with almost no problems. Of course, there are also people who only speak Bulgarian, but I'm talking about the majority of people there. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4671 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish | Message 12 of 17 24 November 2011 at 1:14am | IP Logged | ||
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Hmm, my experience contains only being guided in English, German (for me it was a little bit harder, but bearable) and Macedonian, so I can't tell you much.
But hmm... I think I could be guided also in any other Slavic language since I have been exposed to almost every of them. I would struggle with, but somehow survive in Dutch and Italian - I suppose. Edited by prz_ on 24 November 2011 at 1:15am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| moonjun Bilingual Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4616 days ago 8 posts - 17 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin* Studies: Korean | Message 13 of 17 24 November 2011 at 11:13am | IP Logged | ||
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The situation with Mandarin and Cantonese is a bit more complex.
I believe that all dialect speakers in China younger than 60 could comprehend Mandarin. While there are some speakers who speak Mandarin only, it's not the case for the majority. Younger generations (40-) of minority ethnic groups in China, different in each region, would presumably understand Mandarin, with few geographical exceptions such as remote areas of Tibet and Xinjiang. For people in Hong Kong and Macau, anyone born after 1990 would comprehend Mandarin enough for a tour guide, stated that they studied Chinese in primary and/or secondary as a 1st language. It is still possible to study in the English only schools in HK, and learn French or Spanish as a second language, in that case those people would not comprehend Mandarin. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6409 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 14 of 17 24 November 2011 at 6:39pm | IP Logged | ||
I even think it's not just the exposure but also some features of Spanish... but I'm biased :P 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Matheus Senior Member Brazil Joined 4893 days ago 208 posts - 312 votes Speaks: Portuguese* Studies: English, French | Message 15 of 17 24 November 2011 at 9:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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We have many communities that speak different languages, being Japanese one of those.
But a random group of average Brazilians would understand Latin American Spanish to some degree of fluency, as long as it is not very fast. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| anamsc Triglot Senior Member Andorra Joined 6015 days ago 296 posts - 382 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Catalan Studies: Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Written), French | Message 16 of 17 25 November 2011 at 10:11am | IP Logged | ||
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Here in Andorra, just about everybody (except recent immigrants I guess) could be guided in both Catalan and Spanish. Almost every Andorra could also be guided in French, since that is one of the languages of instruction for two of the three school systems here (the Andorran and the French, but not the Spanish). I also think a lot of people could be guided in Portuguese, because of the large portion of the population with Portuguese ancestry and because of the similarities between Portuguese and Catalan / Spanish / French.
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