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| leroc Senior Member United States Joined 4100 days ago 114 posts - 167 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 17 of 24 05 February 2014 at 8:16pm | IP Logged | |||||
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From all my friends I have personally met on my Facebook feed..
English, Arabic, German, Norwegian, Italian, and Spanish. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Luso Hexaglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 5850 days ago 819 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical) | Message 18 of 24 05 February 2014 at 9:56pm | IP Logged | |||||
From the Wikipedia: "Its closest relative is the Erzya language, with which it is not intelligible". Yes, sounds like a riot. :D I know how you feel, Henkkles. I'm learning an Indo-European language that's as close to mine as Finnish and Mokshan (let me add "probably", because there's bound to be someone on the forum that will not agree). I chose this one because the name reminds of the Sanskrit word for "liberation". Didn't mean to pick on Uralic languages. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| svalbard Diglot Newbie Germany Joined 4067 days ago 5 posts - 10 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 19 of 24 06 February 2014 at 11:26am | IP Logged | |||||
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It used to be: German, English, Swedish, Icelandic, Russian, Ukrainian
Since I spend a semester in Lithuania as an Erasmus student the amount of different languages kind of exploded though and I can add: Portuguese, Spanish, French, Dutch, Italian, Slovak, Czech, Hungarian, Turkish, Romanian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Polish and Korean. My Facebook feed makes me feel like I live in the Tower of Babel sometimes ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4477 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 20 of 24 06 February 2014 at 5:09pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I guess my FB friends are insufficiently "interesting," as it is extraordinarily rare for
me to see a post in anything other than English. From time to time I'll see friends of friends comment on posts from friends, the comments being in Spanish when the original post was in English. (I sometimes post things myself together with a brief comment in Hebrew or German but that's about it.) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5123 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 21 of 24 07 February 2014 at 10:41am | IP Logged | |||||
Foreign does not equal interesting :-) You have probably heard of the Polish king about whom they said that he was fluent in 8 languages, but he did not have anything sensible to say in either of them. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6386 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 22 of 24 07 February 2014 at 4:17pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Language practice is the best thing about facebook for me. I added many people for the game Criminal Case, and it's a great excuse to friend random people from Brazil, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, the Balkan countries etc. The most common languages on my timeline are definitely Portuguese and Spanish. I've given up adding random Scandinavians because they post in English anyway. From the languages I'm not learning, the ones I see most are Bulgarian, Macedonian and French.
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| Zireael Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 4440 days ago 518 posts - 636 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, Spanish Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English | Message 23 of 24 07 February 2014 at 8:35pm | IP Logged | |||||
Which king was that? I heard that anecdote multiple times, but never learned which king it referred to... 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| shk00design Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4233 days ago 747 posts - 1123 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin Studies: French | Message 24 of 24 07 February 2014 at 11:13pm | IP Logged | |||||
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In the past 10 years Cantonese usage in social media like Facebook really picked up. In the old days writing
Chinese using Cantonese vocabulary & grammar was considered in appropriate. Every Chinese in Hong Kong learned to write using proper Mandarin grammar. After the handover of HK to China in 1997, the use of Cantonese in writing really picked up as HK tries to maintain its distinct society within China. To the Western audience they are just Chinese characters. But a person who is educated in Chinese can tell the difference between somebody writing in Cantonese & Mandarin. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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