Applied sociolinguistics internet project

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Vytenis
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Applied sociolinguistics internet project

Post by Vytenis » Sun Nov 09, 2003 5:57 pm

Have you ever spent some time in a non-English speaking country? Was it difficult? Did you manage to get around with English there or did the local language was absolutely necessary? How to know what languages are more vital to learn than others? Well, my new internet project "Do they speak English there?" tries to answer these questions. :)

Everybody knows that for example it is much easier to live in Sweden without the knowledge of Swedish than, say, in China without Chinese or in Russia without Russian. I have collected hundreds of opinions from various people who have in fact lived in those and many other countries worldwide. Here you will find whether or not it is absolutely necessary to learn a local language or do "most" people speak English there. Of course, some people's opinions and impressions may not accurately reflect the real situation, but I believe that many people's impressions of the same country cannot be all wrong and must provide a more accurate picture of reality.

I would also like to ask for your help: if you have been living in any non-English speaking country and want to share your impressions about the language situation there, please send them to me by all means! I will be happy to update this database with the information you sent me. After all, the more impressions from you I receive, the more accurate picture of the real situation will I be able to create.

Thank you very much for your time

The website address is http://whatlanguage.topcities.com

Vytenis
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Delete this one

Post by Vytenis » Sat Nov 29, 2003 3:15 pm

I think that whoever supervises this part of the forum, can delete this one. Not much interest to it anyway :cry:

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Post by Lorikeet » Sat Nov 29, 2003 7:15 pm

Just because no one answered yet doesn't mean it wasn't interesting. And besides, whoever runs the forum doesn't take out the ones that obviously don't belong here anyway. Someone may have an idea in a couple weeks that will make this one take off--you never know. ;) And I couldn't answer because I've never done that (but your website was fun to look at).

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Post by szwagier » Sat Nov 29, 2003 10:11 pm

Thank you, Lorikeet, for bringing this to the top of the forum.

Vytenis, maybe I have something useful to add, but I'm just back from Andrzejki. I'll have a think about it tomorrow, hangover permitting :oops: !

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Post by Vytenis » Sun Nov 30, 2003 2:55 pm

Thanks :)

I am just about to update my website, so visit it again soon.

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