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In Miami Beach, one would expect to hear Spanish and Portuguese but one also hears Russian, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Creole, Hebrew, Arabic and a whole host of other European languages at almost every turn. When not hearing a foreign language in Miami Beach, one is most likely to hear English spoken in an accent other than any of the American varieties.
Practically every day. In my own house English & French Creole, as well as Spanish and outside Spanish, French, various African languages such as Bambara, Wolof and Twi, Creole, Arabic, Hindi, Urdu, Albanian, some Italian, Yiddish and Chinese.
I live in Toronto, where we have at least 120 language groups.
The Toronto Police Service has about 5500 uniform officers, and amongst them they speak over 80 languages, and the 911 call centre has access to 140 live language translators, 24/7.
Our utility bills can be ordered in 45 different languages, if you request one. Same thing for city tax bills, and most banks here have signs at the door, saying how many languages the staff at that branch can speak to you in. My local branch of the CIBC can deal with customers in 14 languages, besides English and French, and that is typical.
Toronto has 19 weekly newspapers, in a language other than English. We have radio and TV stations that broadcast in a different language , every hour, around the clock.
About 50 percent of the people who live in Toronto now, where born "some place else " but now call Canada their home. With in 10 years of arriving in Canada, 85 percent of Immigrants have become Canadian citizens.
I'm on the Mass RI border. I hear Portuguese and Spanish frequently. There are also populations from Southeast Asia, Africa and India, in and around the Providence RI/Southeast Mass area. So I hear those languages at times also. Today I was in the neighboring town of Cumberland RI, and I heard several people speaking a language that I could not place. So a multitude of languages here, but then its always been that way. When we had all the factories here, that are all gone now. We use to hear French every day as well as Portuguese. In fact I think Southeast Mass and RI also, has the largest Portuguese speaking population in North America.
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.
In my area of NYC one can't be outside without hearing Russian and the second language would be Spanish. I also occasionally hear Hebrew speakers as well. Occasionally I have heard French on the subway in my area. Of course, in NYC as already stated one can probably hear most languages that exist if one is in the right part of the city.
In Birmingham AL, if I hear another language (which isn't every day) it's usually Spanish, which can be commonly heard at just about any Walmart in the metro. If I'm near the UAB campus, I might hear various East Asian languages (probably mostly Mandarin, probably some Cantonese/Korean/Vietnamese mixed in, not sure about others) and when I go to gas stations, I sometimes hear languages like Urdu, Pashto or Hindi (lots of Middle Eastern/South Asian owners/attendants)
Besides English i hear Spanish, Portuguese, and French Creole multiple times per day. Russian,Mandarin, Cantonese,French,Italian,German,Arabic,Hebrew, and Greek atleast once a week. Occasionaly will hear other European languages like Romanian, Polish, Dutch,etc and some Asian languages 2 like Japanese,Korean, and Vietnamese. A lot of the time it's not from people who live here, Since Miami is such a popular tourist destination often hear German, French,Russian,etc tourists speaking in their native tongue.
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