What languages do you hear?

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I am at a state park in New Jersey. We are truly an international community. I helped a Russian Jewish person with her boat, I talked to her about the Russian genealogy in this weeks challenge.  I helped a Latin American girl with her dog that got off the leash. I hear several languages and different kinds of music nearby. I see Asian people with traditional hats taking out a boat. What cultures are near you?
in The Tree House by Nancy Wilson G2G6 Pilot (145k points)

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There are people I know,  who live near me, from the following cultures who often speak their ancestral language (at least at home) as well as English:

Hawaiian

Japanese

Filipino

Portuguese

Chinese

Russian

European (Here I include the great mixture who blended on the mainland and came here). These mostly speak only English.

And, finally, lovely blends of many of the above like my great grandson who checked almost all the ethnic boxes on the census.

Of course there is the special local language, Hawaiian Creole English - commonly called Pidgin. This is the most musical and intuitive way of speaking I have heard.

We enjoy food and share in celebrations from all the cultures mentioned. Harmony.
by Kristina Adams G2G6 Pilot (343k points)
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I work for a global technology company. A few years back my manager (who was Swedish) and several of us on our team counted the number of nationalities of people that were in the building and we got 22. This is in a suburb of Denver, Colorado.

I regularly talk to other colleagues all throughout the world. I have people who report to me from India. This past week I was speaking / chatting with people in Germany, France, UK, Finland, India, and New Zealand.

I've had the opportunity to travel to 13 different countries, on 5 continents, in my career.
by Eric Weddington G2G6 Pilot (513k points)
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German is my father tongue

Serbian is the second language in the house, mum and I mix the languages. When mum chats in Esperanto, I understand nearly everything.

English I have contact to every day

In my twitter I have accounts that "speak" Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, French, Dutch and Norwegian (beside the other three languages).
by Jelena Eckstädt G2G Astronaut (1.4m points)
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In the little suburb I live in, we have people from

Greece

Italy

Lithuania

Vietnam

Sudan

China

New Zealand (Maori)

Serbia

Afghan

Bhutan

And we have our various Anoriginal languages. I am sure I have forgotten a couple. Our local shops are an interesting experience.
by Living Poole G2G Astronaut (1.3m points)
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I hear American English, my parent's native language, and mine.  I also hear the Polish and Italian that were spoken, in my neighborhood, as a boy.  I hear my dad's soldier German.  I hear the French I was taught in elementary school.  I hear the French I learned, in France, from my schoolmates, in Collioure and Port-Vendres.  I also hear their Catalan.  I hear the patois of the Dordogne, where we spent the summer.  I hear the taught Spanish of my brief French schooling, the migrants I worked with at the vendage. I hear the Greek of family friends an co-workers in diners. I hear the French of those canadiens I knew in Montreal.  I hear the Spanish and Catalan of those I knew in Castelldefells, I hear the Italian of the masons I worked with, and the French of those Italians, who had worked in France and Switzerland.  I hear the Arabic of family friends, and co-workers and   I hear the  Dutch and German, and Italian of technicians I worked with.  I have endeavored to understand and to engage them all.  It has been my privilege to know and love them all.

I have communicated with a great many people, without fully understanding their language, or they mine.  The primary factor for understanding is respect, followed by good will and good fellowship.
by Mark Weinheimer G2G Astronaut (1.2m points)
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To read my recent family history, I have to translate Russian, German, Latvian, Lithuanian, Estonian, French, Irish and so will hear them regularly.
by Lloyd de Vere Hunt G2G6 Mach 4 (43.7k points)

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