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Chinese and Hindi would be the two most common languages I hear other than English. Also Japanese because my neighbours are Japanese. I also hear Tagalog and Thai quite a lot too.

The tourist adverts would have you believe that hearing Maori is quite common in New Zealand, but I've honestly never heard it spoken except by cringe-inducing white middle class people who speak it badly for a few sentences and then go back to English.

English and Mexican Spanish, for the most part. But my sister learned Japanese for funsies so sometimes I’ll hear that too, when she feels like teasing me.

Well, I live with an Iranian Muslim family so I hear a lot of Farsi, Arabic, Talysh, and Gilaki at home. I'm Zoroastrian so I hear and speak a lot of Avestan. I live in America so English. I work with a lot of Hispanics so Spanish. And I have a Polish girlfriend so Polish when I'm talking to her.

This reminds me of a game me and my brothers used to play down in Florida whenever we were at a service plaza where we'd see how many languages we could recognize in one trip there. I think my oldest brother holds the record with 9 in one bathroom trip: Mandarin, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, French, Spanish, English, Arabic, Russian, and what he thinks was Kiswahili.

A lot of East/South Asian but I don't recognize a syllable of the individual languages.

English, Latin, Gaelic, French and Welsh.

New haven america wrote:English, Spanish coming from most of my neighbors screaming at each other, Arabic from the refugees a little down the way and from some of the engineering students at my school. Yeah, that's about it on a daily occurrence.

I've also heard Russian a bit as there's a large population here, Chinese is not uncommon, heard some French and Portugese here and there.

Where do you live?

Jolthig wrote:

New haven america wrote:English, Spanish coming from most of my neighbors screaming at each other, Arabic from the refugees a little down the way and from some of the engineering students at my school. Yeah, that's about it on a daily occurrence.

I've also heard Russian a bit as there's a large population here, Chinese is not uncommon, heard some French and Portugese here and there.

Where do you live?

PNW. Why?

New haven america wrote:

Jolthig wrote:Where do you live?

PNW. Why?

PNW? What is that, some place in Wales?

Farnhamia wrote:

New haven america wrote:PNW. Why?

PNW? What is that, some place in Wales?

No, unfortunately.

There's too few consonants.

Pretty much most languages, predominately Cantonese, Mandarin, English, Tagalog, French, Bahasa, Hindi and then whatever.

New haven america wrote:

Farnhamia wrote:PNW? What is that, some place in Wales?

No, unfortunately.

There's too few consonants.

AEIOU! They're the letters for you!

The South Falls wrote:

New haven america wrote:No, unfortunately.

There's too few consonants.

AEIOU! They're the letters for you!

p wth cnsnnts, dwn wth vwls!

Spanish from the local illegals, Mandarin and Hindi from highway travelers, and Armenian from my bros and church

Mostly English, sometimes Spanish, Arabic, Mandarin(I assume) and something eastern European sounding. Not IRL but a lot of Japanese, I think you know why.

A Cornstar wrote:Mostly English, sometimes Spanish, Arabic, Mandarin(I assume) and something eastern European sounding. Not IRL but a lot of Japanese, I think you know why.

Because one of your best friends of Japanese of course, right?

English mostly. I hear a lot of Russian from the small Russian population here.

i hear spanish ocassionally

New haven america wrote:

The South Falls wrote:Flexing on us with cyrillic is still flexing.

They're also not actually typing in Russian, they're used Google/Bing translate.

Either that or online translations are actually becoming good at what they're supposed to do.

I use Google translator to translate from Russian to English, and not vice versa.

And Cyrillic is not a very complicated alphabet.
* There are letters that are written and sound as in Latin: K, E, A, O, M, T, C (sound always like S)
* There are letters that are written in Latin, but sound different: У sound like U, Н sound like N, Х sound like H, В sound like V, Р sound like R.
* There are letters that are missing in Latin. Ц sound like TS, Г sound G, Ш sound SH, Щ sound SHCH, З sound Z, Ф sound F, Ы sound Y, П sound P, Л sound L, Д sound D, Ж sound ZH, Э sound E, Я sound JA, Ч sound CH, И sound I, Б sound B, Ю sound JU.

Knowing this, you can easily read many inscriptions in Russian: фото - foto, Лондон - London, etc.
International words are easy to read; they are written like in English. More difficult are words with Slavic roots, they will be unusual for you, but they can be easily understood, for example, by Czechs, Slovaks, Serbs - they have the same roots of words, but the Latin alphabet.

Technoscience Leftwing wrote:

New haven america wrote:They're also not actually typing in Russian, they're used Google/Bing translate.

Either that or online translations are actually becoming good at what they're supposed to do.

I use Google translator to translate from Russian to English, and not vice versa.

And Cyrillic is not a very complicated alphabet.
* There are letters that are written and sound as in Latin: K, E, A, O, M, T, C (sound always like S)
* There are letters that are written in Latin, but sound different: У sound like U, Н sound like N, Х sound like H, В sound like V, Р sound like R.
* There are letters that are missing in Latin. Ц sound like TS, Г sound G, Ш sound SH, Щ sound SHCH, З sound Z, Ф sound F, Ы sound Y, П sound P, Л sound L, Д sound D, Ж sound ZH, Э sound E, Я sound JA, Ч sound CH, И sound I, Б sound B, Ю sound JU.

Knowing this, you can easily read many inscriptions in Russian: фото - foto, Лондон - London, etc.
International words are easy to read; they are written like in English. More difficult are words with Slavic roots, they will be unusual for you, but they can be easily understood, for example, by Czechs, Slovaks, Serbs - they have the same roots of words, but the Latin alphabet.

Actually Serbian uses the Cyrillic alphabet either alongside the Latin alphabet or only using Cyrillic (can't remember which for certain).

Being in America, most people around me speak English or Spanish. There's a few people who speak French or Swahili. In Germany, some people still speak a dialect. There's also some Arabic nowadays. My native language is German.

I was raised in a multiethnic family. Living in this part of Java, naturally Javanese would be the most common language one would hear (note that Indonesian/Malay is my first language). However, since I spend a lot of time around my father, I also hear a lot of Minangkabau, his first language, especially when he was talking with his friends/family. Aside from those three, there are English, mostly from my sister and friends; Arabic mostly from daily prayers; Japanese, from my Japanese culture-loving friends; Sundanese, from my mother who has relatives living in West Java, and also occasionally Korean, from my friends who loves K-pop and Korean dramas.

A few years back when I was still at high school, I also used to hear German, French, and Madurese. Basic German was taught as part of the curriculum in my senior years, French was from my friend, whose father comes from New Caledonia, and Madurese from some of my classmates.

Being Indonesian, I'm always heard Indonesian, Sundanese, Javanese, English, Madurese and arabic

The other day someone spoke french, that was a real surprise
I mean sure it's an official language but man who speaks french

I’ve heard Tagalog (the main lingo around here), then Taglish or English, Korean (given we have as sizeable Korean community + KPop), Mandarin at school and outside near Chinatown every now and then, including other Chinese languages like Hokkien and Fukien, Spanish in the US, Malay, Hindi and Cantonese in Singapore, Japanese in Japan + Anime, Cebuano, Hiligaynon. Idk about other Indian languages. If anthems count, then that includes French, Polish, Russian, Italian, German, Portugese, Greek and others.

I’ve found myself singing Auferstanden Aus Ruinen at night.

El-Amin Caliphate wrote:

Technoscience Leftwing wrote:
I use Google translator to translate from Russian to English, and not vice versa.

And Cyrillic is not a very complicated alphabet.
* There are letters that are written and sound as in Latin: K, E, A, O, M, T, C (sound always like S)
* There are letters that are written in Latin, but sound different: У sound like U, Н sound like N, Х sound like H, В sound like V, Р sound like R.
* There are letters that are missing in Latin. Ц sound like TS, Г sound G, Ш sound SH, Щ sound SHCH, З sound Z, Ф sound F, Ы sound Y, П sound P, Л sound L, Д sound D, Ж sound ZH, Э sound E, Я sound JA, Ч sound CH, И sound I, Б sound B, Ю sound JU.

Knowing this, you can easily read many inscriptions in Russian: фото - foto, Лондон - London, etc.
International words are easy to read; they are written like in English. More difficult are words with Slavic roots, they will be unusual for you, but they can be easily understood, for example, by Czechs, Slovaks, Serbs - they have the same roots of words, but the Latin alphabet.

Actually Serbian uses the Cyrillic alphabet either alongside the Latin alphabet or only using Cyrillic (can't remember which for certain).

Yes, in Serbian Latin is used on a par with Cyrillic.