How often do you hear people speaking a foreign language?

[starbuck]

My company is international so I get to read many languages daily. Most of our clients speak 3-7 languages so I don't get to speak anything other than English. I took German, French and Spanish in school so I'm a leeeetle rusty.

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[Deleted]

World language. Foreign is passé


But I hear it daily since my classroom is next to the Spanish class. But I don't think that's what you mean lol.

But I hear Spanish a lot. I also hear Brazilian, Portuguese Thai, and Lebanese somewhat frequently.

[staceymcgill]

Every day.

[balletofangels]

Everyday. My community is something like 80% Spanish speaking. I have a Korean speaking child in my class and kids in DD's class at daycare speak Chinese, so if I see those kids with their parents I hear Korean or Chinese.

[notoriousmeg]

Daily. I work in NYC,and I hear multiple languages every day.

[blueballoon]

Everyday.

[Jermys]

Daily! We live in a pretty multi-ethnic area.

[purplecow0206]

3 of the people working on my team speak Spanish, so I hear it on a daily basis. I also travel on public transportation and usually hear someone speaking something other than English most days.

[RoxMonster]

Almost never. The town where I teach is not multi-ethnic at all. Out and about in public where I live, I occasionally hear Spanish.

[janegold]

Everyday.

[Moe]

At home and in public, daily.

[lpcats]

Every day. I work with many Indians, Chinese, and Hispanics.

[delawarejen]

I have several coworkers who are Filipino, including the person who sits next to me, so every weekday? Another is from Taiwan, so I hear her on the phone sometimes.

[Booze Raccoon]

I had a group of work friends awhile back.  Each one of us was from a different country.  I was the only American.  The rest of the countries were:

Belarus
Uzbekistan
Poland
Spain

I'd listen to them speak their native language to their parents pretty often.  It was so cool.  Also the girl from Uzbekistan spoke Russian as did the guy from Belarus.  So I'd hear them speaking to each other all of the time.  Probably about me.  lol

[LLL]

Every day

[fuckyourcouch]

Almost daily

[lime]

Quite often. At least once a week.

[eb777888]

I hear Spanish quite a bit. Several times a day.

I just learned that David's elementary school does a Spanish immersion two days a week. SO EXCITED. If he's still living/working in Texas in twenty years, he's going to need it!

[Marmee]

Rarely except for my next door neighbors who are our good friends--They are Greek.

[crazycakes]

Daily. DH is Persian and speaks Farsi with his family. He also speaks in Farsi to DD sometimes. I don't understand it but wish I did.

[macmars45]

M-Th at work. I have kids who speak Spanish and Vietnamese... and garbled English (SpEd preschoolers).

[pooh8402]

Frequently. I live in a town with a major research university, and lots of professors or doctoral students having babies. I probably take care of at least one mother-baby couplet a week where English is a second language.

Most common are Chinese, Korean, Hindi, Parsi, and Turkish. And of course, Spanish. Occasionally Greek, Portuguese, and French.

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[lola]

Every day.

[revolution]

Almost every day if am in the office

[cc]

Everyday. I work at a university with students from all over the place.

[mcc]

Oct 28, 2013 19:09:54 GMT -5 MWOS said:

All day errry day.

Every damn dayyyy.

Sorry, couldn't help myself.

[agnes]

Almost every day.

[ErinExpat]

Every day.

[DotAndBuzz]

Every day. Spanish, Greek, Russian, Romanian, Arabic (maybe Chaldean, it is hard for me to hear the difference, but I know there are heavy populations of both in this area). Well, not each of those every day, but those seem to be the predominant non-english languages that I hear regularly.

[Deleted]

Every day.