What foreign language did you hear today? (shop, warehouse)

[18Montclair]

This morning aside from English, I heard Cantonese, Spanish, French(a senegalese gentleman) and I think Tagalog.

[JavaPhil]

Originally Posted by CMDallas

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Filipino would probably be the most correct term as there various languages in the Philippines. I have family there, and its hard to tell them apart... Visayan, ilocano, Waray...Tagalog is only spoken in the region around Manila, although it's basically the same as Tagalog with a few differences.

Since I speak Tagalog, I figured I could throw that one in there without question. I don't speak Ilocano, Visayan, Zambal or any other of the 8 major languages and 100-some dialects of the Philippines. I can recognize some if heard, but only because I lived ther for 12 years.

[Neutre]

Russkiy yazik.
And today I also heard a language whioch I think was Persian.

[blkgiraffe]

Originally Posted by JMT

There's no such language as "African."

that's why I put question marks.....not sure what type of language they were speaking. I was thinking they were maybe from Nigeria.

[blkgiraffe]

Originally Posted by theSUBlime

Well, here in Houston just today I heard 3 foreign languages.

1. Espanol
2. Nigerian (I think...there are many dialects and I certainly don't know that.)
3. Altered form of English (I was passin' through rough side of 3rd ward.)

that was probably me

[18Montclair]

This is fun.

So far today I've heard Swahili, Cantonese again, Hindi, Tagalog again, Farsi, Arab and Spanish. And its only 930. And a lot of Ebonics. Dunno if that counts.

[illinoisboy]

I hear Spanish, (duh) and Polish alot. I've also heard alot more Japanese or Chinese or Korean lately. I dunno. I think they sound the same.

[TheWereRabbit]

Im in Halifax NS and I hear

French
Portugeese
Urdu
Various east asian tounges
Arabic

its weird not hearing spanish though

[King0fthehill]

broken Mexican Spanish & Korean and Tagalog.

[Bily Lovec]

normal day:
spanish
english
portuguese
chinese
vietnemese
indian