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In Memphis
At work I heard Spanish every day, Vietnamese on occasion, and less frequently some middle eastern languages. Sometimes Russian, Chinese, or Japanese at my kids school events. During the annual Elvis pilgrimage you're liable to hear just about anything!
I live in Texas and I hear Spanish multiple times throughout every day. I hear French and Cajun sometimes because I spend a lot of time in Louisiana. I hear Korean and Vietnamese fairly often (several times a month) because there are large Korean and Vietnamese populations in the larger Texas metro areas. I occasionally hear Farsi or various Middle Eastern languages.
In Houston I would hear Swahili, Portuguese, Spanish, Arabic, Vietnamese, etc on a daily basis.
In Baton Rouge I hear Spanish daily and Vietnamese or Arabic almost daily.
In NYC it's almost impossible to go a day w/o hearing Spanish and Chinese, which are the defacto second languages of the city. Near where I live there are also some stores owned by Middle Easterners, so I hear a fair amount of Arabic.
I used to live in Harlem on a block that was amazingly diverse, linguistically. I could hear people speaking standard American English, Spanish, Creole, Jamaican Patois so thick I could barely figure out it really was English, and some sub-Saharan African language that I never did know the name of. Meanwhile there were Korean speaking shopkeeprs nearby.
Of course if you get on the subway or walk around downtown NYC there's hardly a language you won't hear.
English (Obviously)
Spanish
Vietnamese
Chinese (Not sure the dialect and cant tell the difference personally)
Korean
Italian (Live on the border of Center City and S Philly, I guess technically S Philly and a traditionally old Italian neighborhood where Italian is spoken fairly regularly)
Russian
Indian (Not sure the language or dialect)
Arabic
Are the most common in my area
A fair amount of German, French, Farsi (Less Persian here than are Arabic speakers but my GF is half Persian so now can tell the difference), and some African languages as well just these to me are the next tier as they are not quite as common.
Almost every day.....Mostly Chinese, South Asian and Spanish.
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