1. Yes, Sweden. Lots of advertisements, (and, for that matter, people having regular conversations) use English because they think it's cool.
2. Yes.
3. English.
2. Yes.
3. English.
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1. No, Its predominately English, but with the influx of immigrant around here in the last 10 years I starting to hear alot more Spanish and Russian. And I going to suggest they learn my language because I am not leaning all of there's. Yes I know that makes me sound like a jerk.opeth1989 said:
2. No, English is spoken here
3. besides English, bad English, and apparently I can understand red neck and ebonics
1. Yes, to some degree. English is the main language, but the council has all its websites, leaflets, documents, etc. available in various Indian languages such as Urdu, Sanskrit, Punjab, etc...opeth1989 said:
2. I studied French and German at school, so I know at least some words and basic stuff, but I honestly can't remember most of it. I have decided to learn Japanese though, I can write in Hiragana and I recently bought a book/audio CD designed to teach the basics in thirty short lessons.
3. As I say, very small amount of French/German, and I'm starting to learn Japanese, but because I properly want to though rather than 'just because my school said so'.
1. Oh God yes. I hear at least 5 different languages every day, just walking around.
2. Unfortunately not. I can mostly understand people who speak Spanish if they go slow and use little words, but other than that I'm totally clueless.
It's alright though because everyone usually speaks at least enough English to communicate.
2. Unfortunately not. I can mostly understand people who speak Spanish if they go slow and use little words, but other than that I'm totally clueless.
It's alright though because everyone usually speaks at least enough English to communicate.
1. We mostly speak Norwegian here in Norway.
2. Yes.
3. I can speak english quite well (and I'm bound to jinx myself, now that I am saying that
). I have norwegian as my mother tongue. Can read some german and spanish.
Here in Norway, everyone is forced to learn english from 3rd grade (or 4th, not entierly sure when), so most can at least a bit english. Also from 8th grade, we are forced to learn a 3rd language, which is either german, spanish or french. I have spanish, but because all my teachers so far have sucked, I am rubbish in spanish. And I can understand some written german, as it's very much alike norwegian.
2. Yes.
3. I can speak english quite well (and I'm bound to jinx myself, now that I am saying that
). I have norwegian as my mother tongue. Can read some german and spanish.Here in Norway, everyone is forced to learn english from 3rd grade (or 4th, not entierly sure when), so most can at least a bit english. Also from 8th grade, we are forced to learn a 3rd language, which is either german, spanish or french. I have spanish, but because all my teachers so far have sucked, I am rubbish in spanish
. And I can understand some written german, as it's very much alike norwegian.
Well, to be honest with you, English is Canada's national language. Not being able to speak French is a fair bit more acceptable than not being able to speak English. I'm not saying he was right to badmouth her or anything, just saying...opeth1989 said:
To answer your questions:
1. Do you live in an area where more then one language is commonly used?
Yes. In my area, probably the vast majority of people speak Urdu. Not because I'm from the far-East or anything, but because the UK's immigration policies are a joke.
2. Do you know more then one language?
Yes.
3. If yes, what other language do you speak?
The only language I speak fluently (apart from English) is Scots Gaelic. Unfortunately, it's about the most useless language ever (with about 70,000 speakers worldwide), although it has given me a sense of cultural identity I wouldn't have otherwise, so I'm quite happy because of it.
I also know enough German to get by, and a little bit of French, although I generally don't try and use it because most French people will criticise you if your French is anything less than PERFECT and refuse to speak it to you.
The other one I've learned a bit of is Icelandic. I have extended family over there and was genuinely interested, so I've started trying to pick some up. =)
1. Do you live in an area where more then one language is commonly used?
No, I LIVE in a rural city of about 90,000 in Australia, almost all of the population, me included, are English speaking/Caucasian.
2. Do you know more then one language?
Nope. I can count to 10 in German, and swear fluently in Russian, nothing else.
To earn a crust I work as a 000 (what you Yanks call 911) operator, taking emergency calls from the public from anywhere in the state I live in. A huge chunk of Melbournes' population of 4 million people are immigrants, overseas students, etc. Before this job I didn't give a toss if people learned the national language here or not, now I think being able to speak fluent English should be mandatory before citizenship is awarded. On a daily basis I get callers who need immediate assistance, and it doesn't happen because they yell 'YOU SEND POLICE? YES YES!' at me in Chinglish for up to 10 minutes before it finally gets through that they need to tell me their actual adress before anyone can come to them. A little of topic but hey...
No, I LIVE in a rural city of about 90,000 in Australia, almost all of the population, me included, are English speaking/Caucasian.
2. Do you know more then one language?
Nope. I can count to 10 in German, and swear fluently in Russian, nothing else.
To earn a crust I work as a 000 (what you Yanks call 911) operator, taking emergency calls from the public from anywhere in the state I live in. A huge chunk of Melbournes' population of 4 million people are immigrants, overseas students, etc. Before this job I didn't give a toss if people learned the national language here or not, now I think being able to speak fluent English should be mandatory before citizenship is awarded. On a daily basis I get callers who need immediate assistance, and it doesn't happen because they yell 'YOU SEND POLICE? YES YES!' at me in Chinglish for up to 10 minutes before it finally gets through that they need to tell me their actual adress before anyone can come to them. A little of topic but hey...
I agree that Canada`s national language is english, and if I were living in a area that was not considered bilingual, I'd be thinking the exact same thing, but I am talking about a specific area of Canada, not the whole country. New-Brunswick is a bilingual province, so it would only make sense to learn the basics of both languages. Of course if you live in a part of Canada wich is almost entirely english, its understandable to only need to learn english. The specific town I live how ever, has a substantial amount of french speakers, this makes it all the more convenient to know both languages, not just french and not just english.Mandalore_15 said:
For me it's the same.GundamSentinel said:
On Dutch schools we get a lot of languages to learn: Dutch and English on the "basisschool"(6-12 years old). After that we go to highschool (we call it "Voortgezet onderwijs" (12-16,17 or 18 yo)) where we can choose to learn languages like French, German, Spanish, Latin and Ancient Greek.
1. I hear a only Dutch around me in real life, but to understand what's going on on the Internet you have to use English a lot.
2. Yes I'm multi-lingual.
3. I can speak Dutch and English fluently. German I can understand very well and I'm decent at speaking it (maybe that's because I like to listen to Rammstein). I have to say my knowledge of French, Greek and Latin is not as good anymore as it was at highschool.
Finally, I can speak a few words Japanese, but that's largely due to watching copious amounts of anime...
1) No.
2) Sort of.
3) Spanish. I know how to get out of a Spanish-speaking country if I woke up there one day, and that's about it. Not enough to really hold a conversation or anything.
I think that if you live in the country, you should know the language. For sake of example, a French-speaking woman coming to America and not knowing how to speak English is as ignorant as me moving to France and knowing nothing about the language.
2) Sort of.
3) Spanish. I know how to get out of a Spanish-speaking country if I woke up there one day, and that's about it. Not enough to really hold a conversation or anything.
I think that if you live in the country, you should know the language. For sake of example, a French-speaking woman coming to America and not knowing how to speak English is as ignorant as me moving to France and knowing nothing about the language.
I live in Michigan so it's mostly English, but you still hear quite a bit of Spanish this far north. At least it's a standard that if you are buying something you should know English.
I don't speak another language fluently but I am learning Japanese. Though I can understand a lot more than I can say since I always get tongue tied with the words and grammar.
I don't speak another language fluently but I am learning Japanese. Though I can understand a lot more than I can say since I always get tongue tied with the words and grammar.
1) Largely English, though my place of work attracts an annoyingly large percentage of people who speak only Spanish (I have no problems if you want to speak Spanish, but be able to at least TRY to communicate what you want in English rather than not bother to even attempt to learn it).
2) Does pig latin count?
3) See question 2.
2) Does pig latin count?
3) See question 2.