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Postby Glayji » Sun Feb 17, 2019 5:02 am

I hear English Spanish and French and of course I watch anime so i hear Japanese as well
i also know a Somali speaking family and a Arabic speaking person
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Postby The Archregimancy » Sun Feb 17, 2019 6:53 am

At home, mainly English with a bit of Russian occasionally thrown in from my wife.

At work, the day to day language is English, but it's a very multilingual environment. I know I've heard Spanish, French, Italian, Arabic, Somali, Mandarin, and Urdu at the very least; I've likely missed some I don't recognise.

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Postby The Huskar Social Union » Sun Feb 17, 2019 6:55 am

Ive heard some Irish, Arabic, Chinese, Polish, Spanish, French and... i think thats it.

All very rarely though but Irish is the most common, usually greetings and the likes.
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Postby Nordengrund » Sun Feb 17, 2019 8:09 am

Mostly Spnaish, but I do also hesr Ukrainean and Russian fairly often as well.
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Postby Eglaecia » Sun Feb 17, 2019 8:16 am

Scots, Igbo, Tagalog, Polish, Punjabi, Cantonese, Spanish and French

My town is rather homogeneous but I live right in between all the poor Filipino, Polish and African immigrants, and wealthier Indian and East Asian businessmen. One of the Indian families always have their TV playing loudly, and the Cantonese family is very large, spread across multiple properties and they're always talking in the morning. I do Spanish and French at school so it's natural I hear that.
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Postby New Bremerton » Sun Feb 17, 2019 8:26 am

Where I live, I hear Mandarin, Hokkien, Hakka, Teochew (mainly from my mother), Foochow (from my father), Iban, Malay, Tamil (mainly on local TV). English (ranging from standard to Manglish/Singlish) is also widely spoken by many educated Malaysians, including my parents, from whom I learned it as a first language. I hear Cantonese occasionally on the radio and whenever I'm visiting Hong Kong.

Also, I've been exposed in all the places I've visited, lived in and studied abroad, to Maori, Japanese, Korean, Hindi/Urdu, Farsi/Dari, Afrikaans/Dutch, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Finnish, Jamaican Patois, Nigerian Pidgin, Tagalog/Filipino, Javanese, Thai, Vietnamese, and Welsh.

Not sure about Spanish, Hebrew, Turkish and Arabic.
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Postby Salandriagado » Sun Feb 17, 2019 8:37 am

English, Chinese (Mandarin mostly), French, German, Spanish, Dutch, and Thai would be the top five, in rough order of frequency.
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Postby El-Amin Caliphate » Sun Feb 17, 2019 9:07 am

A m e n r i a wrote:
El-Amin Caliphate wrote:That's a good thing. Also, knowing at least 2 languages is good for jobs and the brain.

There's some Russian speakers in my school.
All the Muslim brothers and sister in my school are either Turkish, Russian, or both, so I hear Turksib a lot when I'm around them (I'm the only African-American Muslim in my school, out of ~7 overall lol)


Must be funny when everyone's drinking in parties and you're just sipping cola. I've been in that position too, as there are even less Muslims in my university than yours (2, to be exact).

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Postby Rio Cana » Sun Feb 17, 2019 9:59 am

Pope Joan wrote:40 percent of my Texas city is Hispanic, so I listen to a lot of Mexican Spanish. It's all over the radio too.

I do not comprehend it well.


In the US they tend to call pick-up trucks - "Trucks". Tex-Mex people and other Mexican-Americans in the Southwest tend to call pick-up trucks - "Trucka" sounds like "Troka". They take the English word and give it a somewhat Spanish twist by adding the letter "A" at the end. The proper Spanish word for pick-up truck is "Camioneta"which translates to small truck.

Then we have some people here that have lived in NY or some other parts of the US that have tended to give a Spanish twist to the English word "Truck" (a regular big Truck not a pick-up truck) by saying "Troo"for "Truck". Seems they cannot pronounce the "uck" so it turns out to sound like "oo". The proper Spanish word for a regular big truck is "Camion". So now you know how new words are formed.
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Postby Esternial » Sun Feb 17, 2019 10:08 am

FIve most common are Dutch, English, French, Turkish and some Hindi.

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Postby The Greek Senate » Sun Feb 17, 2019 10:12 am

English, Spansh and Arabic. Pretty large Arab community where i live, mostly from Syria and other areas in the Levant. Kinda sucks to see everyone being asshats after they've been through so much.
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Postby Yaguo » Sun Feb 17, 2019 10:14 am

On street of Feodosia i hear only Russian.
In Internet i'm used to hear japanese and chinese speaked language (films)
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Postby Crylante » Sun Feb 17, 2019 10:19 am

I live in the south of England so the language I hear most often is, well, English.

However, my mum and her family come from the north so I also hear the Mancunian language a lot, and then if I'm at the station or walking down the street I occasionally hear someone talking to their kids or on the phone in Polish.
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Postby Cekoviu » Sun Feb 17, 2019 10:19 am

I'm from an urban area in the western United States. Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Hindi-Urdu, and Spanish are the most frequent ones. I've heard Thai(?), Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, and a Niger-Congo-sounding language too.
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Postby Technoscience Leftwing » Sun Feb 17, 2019 10:50 am

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Postby United Muscovite Nations » Sun Feb 17, 2019 11:42 am

Cekoviu wrote:I'm from an urban area in the western United States. Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Hindi-Urdu, and Spanish are the most frequent ones. I've heard Thai(?), Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, and a Niger-Congo-sounding language too.

Maybe Igbo?
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Postby Trollgaard » Sun Feb 17, 2019 11:45 am

English. A bit of Spanish from time to time. I've heard a few other languages around the area, but not very frequently.

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Postby Proctopeo » Sun Feb 17, 2019 11:51 am

Chiefly English, but occasionally Spanish, Arabic, and Chinese (probably Mandarin).
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Postby Karnatadesha » Sun Feb 17, 2019 11:59 am

Tamil on the streets. Roommates are Bengali. At work, Supervisors use Hindi and English. Some colleagues use Telugu. Neighbors are foreign language researchers specialised in Canada aboriginal language - Cree. So, I heard lot of that as well.

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Postby Rotar » Sun Feb 17, 2019 12:02 pm

at home, we normally speak English although there's occasionally some Hebrew swearing if I or my family drop a plate on accident or something, and I have friends that I speak Russian, Arabic, and Cantonese with.

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African-American Vernacular "English".
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Postby Conserative Morality » Sun Feb 17, 2019 12:14 pm

Heard some Somali back when I was going to college around here. Was p. cool, not gonna lie. I hear a little Spanish now and then, and I try to practice my own (very basic) French and Latin out loud to keep them from getting rusty.
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Postby Yusseria » Sun Feb 17, 2019 1:57 pm

El-Amin Caliphate wrote:
Yusseria wrote:The lack of assimilation.

That's a good thing. Also, knowing at least 2 languages is good for jobs and the brain.
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I've heard a little bit of Lithuanian around where I live.

There's some Russian speakers in my school.
All the Muslim brothers and sister in my school are either Turkish, Russian, or both, so I hear Turksib a lot when I'm around them (I'm the only African-American Muslim in my school, out of ~7 overall lol)

Not assimilating into your new country is not really a good thing.
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Postby Vivolkha » Sun Feb 17, 2019 2:12 pm

Arab and Urdu are common (through immigration). Living near a tourist destination, American English, Japanese, German, and Russian are commonly heard too, I've occasionally identified Norwegian and what I think is Ukrainian. Recently, I've noted an increasing number of Portuguese speakers too.
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Postby Bezkoshtovnya » Sun Feb 17, 2019 2:16 pm

Yusseria wrote:
El-Amin Caliphate wrote:That's a good thing. Also, knowing at least 2 languages is good for jobs and the brain.

There's some Russian speakers in my school.
All the Muslim brothers and sister in my school are either Turkish, Russian, or both, so I hear Turksib a lot when I'm around them (I'm the only African-American Muslim in my school, out of ~7 overall lol)

Not assimilating into your new country is not really a good thing.

Just because someone is speaking their mother language among peers that speak it as well doesnt mean they dont know the language of the country they reside in. I dont see why they should be forced to always converse in their adopted nation's language in a setting where they are not required to. Bilingualism is not a negative. Quite the opposite.
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