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| arodriguez66 Diglot Newbie United States lepensuer.wordpress.Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5414 days ago 34 posts - 35 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Russian | Message 9 of 27 01 May 2012 at 9:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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Washigton, DC
New York Orlando Miami San Antonio (any major military base city) Hawaii - Big Island 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Darklight1216 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4918 days ago 411 posts - 639 votes  Speaks: English*, French Studies: German | Message 10 of 27 01 May 2012 at 11:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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Any major city and if the language you love is Spanish: nearly any city.
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| Camundonguinho Triglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4567 days ago 273 posts - 500 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Spanish Studies: Swedish | Message 11 of 27 02 May 2012 at 12:44am | IP Logged | ||
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Miami = English + Latin American Spanish (Cuban, Portorican, Mexican and also Argentinian) + Brazilian Portuguese
''As of 2000, speakers of Spanish as their first language accounted for 66.75% of residents, English by 25.45%, Haitian Creole by 5.20%, and French speakers comprised 0.76% of the population.[78] Other languages that were spoken throughout the city include Portuguese at 0.41%, German at 0.18%, Italian at 0.16%, Arabic at 0.15%, Chinese at 0.11%, and Greek at 0.08% of the population.'' (Wiki on Miami) ''As of 2000, speakers of Spanish as a first language accounted for 55% of residents, while English made up 33%, Portuguese was at 3.4%, French was at 1.7%, German at 1.1%, Italian 1%, and Russian was 0.85% of the population. Due to the large Jewish community, Yiddish was spoken at the home of 0.81% of the population, and Hebrew was the mother tongue of 0.74%.[32] As of 2000, Miami Beach had the 22nd highest concentration of Cuban residents in the United States, at 20.5% of the population.[33] It had the 28th highest percentage of Colombian residents, at 4.4% of the city's population,[34] and the 14th highest percentage of Brazilian residents, at 2.2% of the its population (tied with Hillside, New Jersey and Hudson, Massachusetts.)[35] It also had the 27th largest concentration of Peruvian ancestry, at 1.85%,[36] and the 27th highest percentage of people of Venezuelan heritage, at 1.79%.[37] Miami Beach also has the 33rd highest concentration of Honduran ancestry (1.03%)[38] and the 41st-highest percentage of Nicaraguan residents, which made up 1% of the population.[39]'' (Wiki on Miami Beach) Edited by Camundonguinho on 02 May 2012 at 12:47am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| sillygoose1 Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 4454 days ago 566 posts - 814 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: German, Latin | Message 12 of 27 02 May 2012 at 1:43am | IP Logged | ||
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NYC, Philadelphia, Chicago
You will see a huge mix of languages in each of those cities including Polish, Mandarin, Korean, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Russian, etc. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Quinn Senior Member United States Joined 6141 days ago 134 posts - 186 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Italian, Spanish | Message 13 of 27 02 May 2012 at 3:01am | IP Logged | ||
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Oakland is one of the most ethnically diverse cities in the United States. In my neighborhood you can hear Spanish, Cantonese, Mandarin and Yoruba. And just outside my neighborhood, Vietnamese, Korean, Tagalog, Thai, Hmong, Hindi, and Japanese.
Any polyglot with skills in languages of Asia would be like a kid in a candy store. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 4948 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 14 of 27 02 May 2012 at 3:09am | IP Logged | ||
He'd mentioned that he wanted to stay way from both SF and NYC due to the cost of living, but Oakland's a good alternative. Housing is cheaper, yet you're still close enough to SF to enjoy all it has to offer, too. R. == 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Alanjazz Triglot Groupie United States Joined 4633 days ago 65 posts - 129 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese | Message 15 of 27 02 May 2012 at 3:40am | IP Logged | ||
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Depends on the languages you want to work on/know. Being partially from Minnesota, I could suggest Minneapolis
on the grounds of three languages - Spanish, Somali, and Hmong. There are vibrant communities of speakers of all of these languages! I was also going to say Miami, but that city has had plenty of good arguments made for it already. I would suggest Boston but I don't like it. Though, there are local Portuguese and Italian-language communities, and of course Spanish and Haitian Creole. Los Angeles, though it has a terrible reputation, IS very diverse. There are a lot of options. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| The Real CZ Senior Member United States Joined 5467 days ago 1069 posts - 1495 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 16 of 27 02 May 2012 at 3:46am | IP Logged | ||
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Oakland is a ghetto piece of crap though. Stay away, it's the Detroit of the West Coast.
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