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Poll: How many languages are spoken in your household? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "How many languages are spoken in your household?".
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Muriel Vasconcellos (X) 
United States
Local time: 19:30
Spanish to English
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| Zero(?), 1, 2, or 3 | Jan 10, 2018 |
What's with this zero thing? I live alone, but I have guests, talk on the phone, and talk to my dog. And I am writing in a language all day long.
When my family visits, we speak in Portuguese, and I talk to my helpers in Spanish.
[Edited at 2018-01-10 08:44 GMT]
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2 on a normal day, at family gatherings 3: English, Italian and German.
When my daughter's husband first met our family, he was amazed to hear us at the table, skipping from one language to another..
They now live in Lausanne, so a bit of French has also crept in.
My son's wife is Romanian, but only the two of them speak the language properly, so it is not added to the mix.
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| Usually? 0-1 | Jan 10, 2018 |
I live alone. One of my daughters visits me almost every day and we always talk in Portuguese. Some of my family has been living abroad (Belgium and England) for a long time and when they visit we tend to speak in French or English, because their Portuguese has become quite rusty…
P.S.: About this zero thing, once in a while I catch myself without having said a single word the whole day…
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| Only 2 for now. Until we move to another country. | Jan 10, 2018 |
It's like this. My husband and I speak Portuguese, and the kids reply back in English 😂
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Marjolein Snippe
Netherlands
Local time: 04:30
Member (2012)
English to Dutch
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Unless my sister's girlfriend is here, when 3-4 languages peacefully share the same space.
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We speak Italian
I speak English with my kids sometimes
I speak English with some clients
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Robert Forstag
United States
Local time: 22:30
Spanish to English
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I was puzzled by this initially myself - until I realized that the Asker most likely wanted to cover monastic translators who have taken a vow of silence.
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Michael Harris
Germany
Local time: 04:30
Member (2006)
German to English
I only speak English with my children, my wife speaks Hungarian with them and German is the "Environment" language because we live in Germany.
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EvaVer (X)
Local time: 04:30
Czech to French
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Robert Forstag wrote:
I was puzzled by this initially myself - until I realized that the Asker most likely wanted to cover monastic translators who have taken a vow of silence.
Nice. I was rather thinking of people who don't talk to each other, or to people like my husband who are so bad at their mother tongue that some might say they don't speak it, they just make noises.
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I would like to know those who replied 8, what a confusion!
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The family language is French and I speak English to my children - who also speak fluent (and often hilarious) franglais, which I try to avoid...
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Joohee Kim
South Korea
Local time: 12:30
English to Korean
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Father (speaks Korean, Chinese traditional)
Mother (Korean)
Me (Korean, English)
My brother (Korean, English, Japanese)
So, when we are together, we only speak Korean.
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