Do People Speak More Than One Language Where You Live?
@desertdarlene (8910)
United States
June 4, 2008 11:15pm CST
Where I live, I can hear people speaking all the languages of the world. But, Spanish is the most common. I would say that Spanish is probably almost as common as English in my neighborhood.
How about where you live? When you go out in your city do you hear many different languages?
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18 responses
@desertdarlene (8910)
• United States
5 Jun 08
LoL, I think the whole urban southwestern coast of California is probably the same way.
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@jephone (118)
• Canada
30 Jun 08
The place which I am living right now, the official languages are English and French. So If you only speak one of these languages, it is not enough. If you try to look for a job, the candidate has to be bilingue. I think I should move out of this city.
@desertdarlene (8910)
• United States
30 Jun 08
It like that in some cities where I live. If you want a job working with the city, you have to be bilingual. But, it's not like that in my city. You don't even have to know English unless you are working directly with the public.
@beautyqueen26 (16030)
• United States
29 Jun 08
In our area, we have a nice
mix of sub-cultures. Spanish and English
are very common languages.
Also, German and Dutch languages are too, cause
we get many from the North who live here
part of the year.
@ItsMePammy (27)
• United States
5 Jun 08
I live in northern NY, very close to the Canadian border. Besides English, I hear lots of French-Canadian speakers, because many Canadians come here to shop and vacation.
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@desertdarlene (8910)
• United States
5 Jun 08
That's pretty cool! I live near the Mexican border and we experience the same thing with Spanish speakers. Of course, our area is pretty saturated with Spanish speakers, already.
@jijomathew (519)
• India
12 Jun 08
i live in Delhi.its the capital of India.you might be knowing that India has a variety of languages .In my locality people speak languages like Hindi ,English, Malayalam,Tamil ,but Hindi is the most common.thank you for asking this question!
HAVE A NICE DAY.
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@desertdarlene (8910)
• United States
12 Jun 08
Wow, thanks for answering my question about a common language in India. You have a great day, also.
@maddysmommy (16230)
• United States
5 Jun 08
I live in Virginia and Spanish is the most common language other than English here as well. My neighbors speak Japanese and Chinese which is nice on the ears.
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@desertdarlene (8910)
• United States
5 Jun 08
I think Spanish is becoming common all over the United States nowadays.
@desertdarlene (8910)
• United States
5 Jun 08
Thanks for responding. My co-workers all speak those languages (and, of course, many others).
@leafgxu (472)
• China
5 Jun 08
I live in China and Chinese is the only offical language. But there are many dialects in China. In my city, there are more than 5 dialects I can heard from other people. I only know 3 dialects but I can use standard Chinese to communicate with other Chinese in China.
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@desertdarlene (8910)
• United States
5 Jun 08
One thing I've always wondered about China is whether or not people speaking the different dialects can understand each other. The dialects seem so different.
In the United States, most people can understand the different dialects of English here. If you are not a native English speaker, it might be hard to understand one or two dialects, but most native speakers can understand all of them.
@dragon54u (31634)
• United States
5 Jun 08
Not as much as when I lived in the Southwest. For the most part, I hear very little except English here in the Midwest. We have a fair amount of Hispanics here, but I usually hear them speaking English. My neighbors across the street will sometimes speak Spanish but I've hear the wife admonish the husband to speak English.
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@desertdarlene (8910)
• United States
5 Jun 08
When I grew up in Detroit, I heard very little other than English, too. But, because my family was part Canadian and we received Canadian television, I would sometimes hear or read French, especially when I visited Canada, but even that was pretty rare. I didn't really hear all that much Spanish until I moved to California.
@gitfiddleplayer (10362)
• United States
5 Jun 08
Mostly Spanish where I live, some Chinese too.
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@desertdarlene (8910)
• United States
5 Jun 08
At one of the places that I usually work, there's a lot of recent immigrants from China.
@lieanat (1137)
• Malaysia
5 Jun 08
My country is a multi racial country. We have 3 major races and other natives races too. So, it's very normal to listen to all those different languages! We had Malay language, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien, Hainam, Fu Chou, Tamil, Hindi, Iban, Bidayuh, Lunbawang, Melanau, English and many more. It is estimated that we have more than 70 languages in our country!
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@elitess (5070)
• Ipswich, England
5 Jun 08
I live in Bucharest, Romania's capital city, so in the city center one can also hear french, english, chinese, magyar, spanish, german. The ones that i hear more often except from romanian are english and french though.
@desertdarlene (8910)
• United States
5 Jun 08
Thanks for responding. I've always wondered things about countries like Romania and your neighbors.
@samimkardar (828)
• United States
12 Jun 08
I live in Karachi, Pakistan, It is the city of more than 2 Billion people,
Multiethnic City, I see the many peoples daily to speak different regional and National (Urdu) Language, It make the city beautiful.
@desertdarlene (8910)
• United States
5 Jun 08
In San Diego, you can hear all kinds of language. We have a lot of different cultures where I live from Asia and Africa. But, I also hear a lot of other languages. I was working at the library and I think I heard someone speaking French among the others that I have mentioned.
