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| robsolete Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5175 days ago 191 posts - 428 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Arabic (Written), Mandarin | Message 97 of 121 05 May 2010 at 12:59am | IP Logged | |||||
Oops! I didn't see the response. I live in Boston. English - given Spanish - given, for most large US cities Portuguese - New England has a very large Portuguese community since the 1820s, and Boston itself has attracted a lot of Brazilian immigrants and (I think) the largest Cape Verdean community in the US. French - Mostly exchange students at our universities, or the Quebecois who decide to wander down to "warmer" weather. As a side note, we have a very large number of Haitian immigrants, some of whom are bilingual in French and Creole. Arabic - Boston has a large community of Lebanese Christians, about half of whom still speak Arabic. Unfortunately for my studies they've generally spread out into the suburbs, but we still have many many students from the Arab world who come to Harvard, MIT, et al. Russian - Less common nowadays, but we still have a strong Russian community in one or two neighborhoods. Chinese - We've got a small Chinatown. Nothing like NYC of course, but it's been there quite some time. I believe it was mostly Cantonese speakers at first, but Mandarin speakers seem to be slowly becoming the majority. We also have a lot of Japanese and Korean exchange students, and a small but pretty active Turkish community. Not bad for a smaller city! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5125 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 98 of 121 05 May 2010 at 1:10am | IP Logged | |||||
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English French German Turkish Typical day really. Edited by ReneeMona on 05 May 2010 at 1:12am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Tenebrarum Groupie United States Joined 5196 days ago 84 posts - 115 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi | Message 99 of 121 05 May 2010 at 6:08am | IP Logged | |||||
I was in Boston for a school trip a few days ago and I didn't want to leave! Really love that place so I'm sure I'll go over the summer (I live on Long Island, NY...). But yeah I loved the diversity/languages - something I'm sadly not used to when I'm home/not in college. Languages I've heard today: English (in the U.S...) Hindi (Mostly music) Arabic (Music and documentary film) Dinka (I think... documentary film) Japanese (Friends) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Olympia Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5771 days ago 195 posts - 244 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Old English, French | Message 100 of 121 11 June 2010 at 11:38pm | IP Logged | |||||
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English. It's all around me, of course.
Spanish. I listen to music and watch videos in Spanish every day, and I e-mailed a Spanish-speaking friend as well. Portuguese. Same with Spanish. I always listen to music and watch videos in Portuguese. However I am not fortunate enough to have access to many Portuguese speakers in my daily life. So I don't get to hear it as much as I'd like. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| betaquarx Triglot Groupie Germany Joined 5509 days ago 70 posts - 90 votes Speaks: German*, English, Dutch Studies: French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 101 of 121 16 July 2010 at 10:32pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I never heard so much Spanish in a day in my hometown. Followed by a lot of Dutch and some Russian.
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| dolly Senior Member United States Joined 5580 days ago 191 posts - 376 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Latin | Message 102 of 121 16 July 2010 at 11:35pm | IP Logged | |||||
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French: Engrenages (TV series)
Songs in Farsi, Urdu and Turkish performed by Azam Ali on the album Nine Heavens 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Tally Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Israel Joined 5398 days ago 135 posts - 176 votes Speaks: English*, Modern Hebrew* Studies: French | Message 103 of 121 18 July 2010 at 10:58pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Today I heard a language I could not recognize and it was driving me insane! And I was
surprised at myself for not recognizing it... I wanted to ask the people but they were gone before I could do it. Grrr now it won't stop haunting me. It could just be a dialect of some language but still I needed to know. Edited by Tally on 18 July 2010 at 11:57pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 5932 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 104 of 121 18 July 2010 at 11:04pm | IP Logged | |||||
I absolutely HATE it when that happens to me. I was just on a big trip that took me across three continents, so I naturally was trying to identify a bunch of languages, and I couldn't figure out some of them. One of the most annoying was when there was a family on the airplane in the seats right in front of me and they were speaking a language that sounded very familiar but that I could not figure out. At first I thought it was a dialect of English, and then perhaps Danish. Finally I realized that they were speaking German and I couldn't believe that I hadn't been able to figure that one out immediately! 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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