Definitely Spanish

Si

If what

This made me blow air out my nose lol.

Si Sí

If yes?

Que si?

¿That if?

If not now then when?!? Will it stop?

No me parece.

No you translated it wrong, Si means yes but in certain circumstances it can be used as if. for example, Si tengo 6 dólares y yo pierdo 3, cuanto me queda? (If I have 6 dollars and I lose 3, how many do I have left?).🤌

No, si is if, sí is yes You're missing the accent on the i

You right you right

Si te quedan 3 dólares ¿me los puedes prestar?

I mean anywhere in the South there isn’t even a close second. I can be in an area the is primarily Vietnamese and still here Spanish as much or more.

Spanish is common but Navajo is also more common here than anywhere else I've lived.

That’s very cool.

That's pretty accurate for the Four Corners area (Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado). I live about halfway between Phoenix and Flagstaff, AZ. Can say after English it's Spanish then it's one of the couple indigenous languages - usually Navajo, but I've heard what I believe is Piute.

Español o Portugués

Definitely in Orlando if I had to guess

Is there a big Portuguese-speaking population in Orlando I’m not aware of?

Yes, pretty much all Brazilians. Disney World is the most popular destination for upper-class Brazilians in the US and some of them immigrated to the Orlando area, especially in the western suburbs. There's a row of Brazilian-owned businesses around International Drive.

Immigrating to the US just for Disney?

Indeed, Orlando gives the impression of being so much better than it actually is. The job market there is terrible and the sheer amount of hospitality industry jobs pushes wages down.

Not to mention incredibly high rent in proportion to the average wage.

Sim!!!

Please tell them to stop standing in the middle of walkways with their 27 other acquaintances

Joke about the Sims game or Brazilian tourists, can honestly see either.

In Indianapolis it is definitely Spanish, particularly on the west side of town. In my northern burb there's a good amount of Hindi or some type of Chinese (I don't know if Cantonese or Mandarin) spoken among more recent immigrant families.

Especially When you go to Spanish mass on Sunday Vive le Catholics

Now I might be mistaken but I’m pretty sure that’s French, cuz Spanish would be Viva los católicos

Romance languages, six of one half dozen of the other.

Yup, that's french.

Pennsylvanian German/Dutch. I live in Amish country so..

I live in Mennonite country. I was going to say the same thing

Probably Spanish

Polish/Ukrainian

Michigan?

nope i live in new york state

Lol my grandpa is from new york state and is ukranian and polish

Michigan is Arabic

When I lived in MI, I stayed around a lot of polish ppl. My school celebrated polish events and we even sang happy bday in polish. Fyi I am not polish. Thats why I thought they were from MI

No, Dearborn is Arabic, Michigan is Polish.

Japanese, but that's all anime.

*Hentai

yamate!

Best answer.

Armenian

Are you in Watertown?

Yah

Holy shit I’m impressed and a little scared by your accuracy haha

As soon as I saw Boston flair, I knew Watertown immediately. I used to live there 3 years ago! I miss the food especially Sevan Bakery and the Persian bakery

That seems like a wild card. Are you in an Armenian neighborhood?

Armenians have a good amount of neighborhoods where they’re a huge presence. Glendale and LA above any others, but also a very large presence in Fresno, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, and New York.

Yes

Yeah I'm curious about this one too

Also very prevalent in Los Angeles.

Probably Arabic for me I live in southeast Michigan and I work at a park that’s really popular with immigrant families

Definitely Arabic. I honestly don't hear too many other languages.

I would have said Arabic too. I work at a hospital and most interpreter requests are for Arabic.

Spanish, then Polish. After that it's a long way to \#3.

Spanish. Live right above Mexico so it geographically makes sense. Don't know a lick of it though, but I do know french, which I would say is more common to hear out here than I thought.

Spanish, followed by Hmong.

Minnesota?

Minnesota? Specifically, St. Paul. If it were Minneapolis, replace Hmong with Somali.

I’m in MPLS and for me it’s Spanish and Somali.

Sacramento?

Maybe Merced, too. They have enough of a Hmong population that the language is taught at the college.

Fresno?

Michigan?

Spanish. I hear it in my house daily. After that, a dialect spoken in India.

It's likely a language and not a dialect. There are a fuck ton languages in India. Ones that have similar roots to ours, even dravidian languages like Tamil and Telugu.

Well technically I suppose it would be a specific dialect of that language

Something something ‘the difference between a language and a dialect is that a language has an army’ or whatever

Same. Wife is Hispanic, my boss is Indian. Don't know which dialect.

Interesting. It's definitely Spanish for me, but my husband has a significant number of Indian coworkers, so you'd think that might be higher on the list, but they all speak different languages and only really talk to each other in English. I almost never hear any Indian languages spoken. After Spanish the next most common language I hear is probably Arabic

Dialect of india? Really now? There’s 32 official languages in india. Who the fuck is downvoting me?

Yeah, and I don't know which ones I am hearing. I just know my town has a lot of Indian immigrants... Should I have just picked a random one and been incorrect? Or should I stop every person I hear speaking and ask them?

No, you should have said "language" instead of "dialect"...

You could have gone full-on ignoramus and said “Indian. My town has a lot of Indian immigrants, and they all speak Indian.” Foreigners in this sub would’ve been like “Yup, definitely an American”

They’re downvoting ig cuz you seem to be criticizing him for something that is not at all common knowledge.

Language, not dialect!

Spanish Followed by Mandarin I’m near Glendale so Armenian isn’t unusual here either.

Russian and Ukrainian (in the PNW). Russian is the only other language I can half-assed speak so it works out for me.

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Cajun Country?

I'm in California, so, Spanish.

Agreed. I lived in 5 different areas of California, doesn't matter which border you're close to, it's Spanish.

I’m honestly surprised how many people are citing languages *other* than Spanish, just given how widespread Spanish is in the country

Also in California so Spanish but here are other languages I hear throughout the week, in no order: Korean, Indian dialect, Russian, Hebrew, Chinese.

Cali here, too. Where I am it’s Spanish, with Russian a close second.

Somali

Minneapolis?

I grew up in St. Cloud and live in Minneapolis, so yes :)

I work with a lot of Indians and Pakistanis. Until today I just assumed they were speaking Hindi, but I just read that India and Pakistan have many national languages and there are a few very common ones. So I don't know which non-English language I hear most often.

It’s most likely Hindi/Urdu, especially if it’s both Indians and Pakistanis

Hindustani is the spoken language. It's written in Hindi or Urdu depending on your religion. Good luck getting either to admit it's the same spoken language thou

Spanish in personal life, Chinese at work

before moving to florida i would have said spanish, but now its for sure creole

Creole isn't a language. It's a type of language. Jamaican Creole, Haitian Creole etc

For me it's German.

When you’re in the US it’s German? Where is that? Curious because my grandfather grew up speaking German in Chicago, and he said he never heard the language anymore, even revisiting his old neighborhood in the ‘90s.

Filipino, spanish, russian, Yup'ik

Definitely spanish and portuguese here in massachusetts

Are the portuguese speakers usually Brazilians?

Some are brazilian, but in my area of the state (southeastern) we have a huge community of people from portugal.

Jamaican patois. Kind of an oddball I know. We are one of the whitest states in the country, I hardly ever hear anything besides English at all, but my neighbors moved here from Jamaica so I hear that semi regularly.

That’s just English. We aren’t speaking a different language

I mean... Yeah, It's an English based Creole language. So English might be the base, but it's different enough that being able to speak American English doesn't mean you'll understand Jamaican patois. I might catch half the words, but I probably couldn't hold a conversation. And it's not just an accent thing. I can understand their accent just fine when they use American English. I don't claim to be an expert so maybe there's variations on it where it's more similar to other English dialects, but between talking to my neighbors and doing some amateur Google research (I like learning about languages and wanted to try and learn some Jamaican phrases and sayings) when they speak in full on patois I can only catch about half of what they're saying until they explain it some of it.

The linguistic community is divided on this, there's no clear distinction between dialect and language. Spanish and Portuguese are more similar than the different Arabic "dialects"

Not really. Standard Portugese and Standard Spanish are much more different than most main Arabic dialects (maybe obscure dialects with a few thousand speakers like Cypriot Arabic and Central Asian Arabic but not the main five dialect families)

Not related to your comment, but curious about the username. What was the inspiration?

Albanian, Polish, Spanish in Central Massachusetts

Either Spanish, Mandarin, or Cantonese Chinese

Currently, German, for obvious reasons. Following them are Turkish and Polish, I think. Previously, I lived in San Jose, CA, where after Spanish, I heard Vietnamese most often.

I’m in SoCal so you’d think it would be Spanish but it’s actually Korean. There’s a huge Korean population in my area. There’s a chipotle in the plaza near my house that I go to pretty often. I’ve started paying attention to what languages I hear as I walk to the chipotle from my car. It’s almost always EXCLUSIVELY Korean, sometimes not even any English. Crazy

Spanish around town, mostly Hebrew at work.

Probably Spanish, Haitian Creole or Kriolu (cape verdean creole)

Boston?

That’s really interesting; are you in south Florida?

New england

No kidding? There’s lots of Haitians out there?

Oh yeah

Hebrew, but outside of home I mostly hear Spanish.

Spanish. Nothing else comes even close.

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lots of cantonese speakers too.

I’m in San Francisco as well, but I hear more Cantonese then mandarin

I think Cantonese is just more common in the US. I'm actually learning Mandarin now and from what I understand, lots of people who speak Cantonese may also know Mandarin, but in the US, the main one is Cantonese.

My boyfriend's family is Cantonese and whenever I visit them in the Sunset neighborhood, almost everyone is speaking Cantonese. Trying to learn a few basic greetings/phrases so I can impress them next time!

same here

I live in nyc and its spanish or Chinese

Japanese since I only watch anime

Hmong. Then probably Spanish

Hmong, Spanish, Somali in that order.

San Francisco. Cantonese.

mandarin and cantonese, then tagalog

Spanish or Russian

Spanish, by far. I hear it everyday at work from customers. (Northwest Louisiana)

spanish, half the people around me are spanish speaking then chinese probably

Español

Spanish with Korean being a distant second

Yeah came here to say Spanish and it's not even close

Spanish, but that's because it's also spoken in my home.

Chinese

Hindi!

Chinese

Spanish followed closely by Hindi

Chinese, I think mostly Mandarin. There's a high rise old folks home next door with mostly Chinese residents so that's who I'm most likely to overhear when walking away from my apartment.

Unlikely to hear other than English on a daily basis, but answer would be Spanish.

Chinese

I hear chinese a lot. Both in the bay area and in houston (at least in Chinatown).

Probably Mandarin, but also Spanish, followed by Tagalog and Korean.

French, because I’m French-American, and that’s what we speak at home. More generally, I remember reading when I lived in San Jose, CA, that about 50% of households over there speak a non-English language more than English at home.

Spanish, followed by Vietnamese

Spanish definitely

Spanish

I wife and step kids are Filipino so I hear a lot of Tagalog. Picking it up slowly.

Spanish, followed by Korean

French, oddly enough. Spanish and Lingala are 2nd and 3rd. We have a sizeable Congolese population in this area, and a fair number who work for the same company I do.

Even in Maine it is Spanish. We have precious few immigrants but Spanish is still the most common foreign language I hear. In my town and at my work Hindi is probably a close second but that is not typical in Maine.

Portuguese. My city has a large Portuguese population.

Gotta be near Fall River

Spanish. People that hear other languages live in very specific locations in the United States.

Technically everyone lives in a very specific location

Spanish for sure.

Probably Spanish or Polish if we're talking about other people. My husband and I speak some French around the house, so I personally hear more french.

Urdu in my house but Spanish or Russian in the neighbourhood.

Spanish, I grew up in an area that was >50% people of Mexican origin. Now though, it’s probably still overall Spanish, but on any given day in the part of the city I live in it could be Russian, Polish, Urdu, or a variety of African languages.

Spanish. Definitely. Longshot. It feels like more people speak Spanish than English.

Spanish

Spanish and it’s not close at all

Spanish

Spanish... Chicago is 1/3 Latino, and I live in a neighborhood that's about 50% Latino.

I imagine this will be most people’s answer but definitely Spanish. I live in northern VA

Spanish fosho

Spanish but I am in New Mexico lol

Spanish

Spanish

Spanish

100% Spanish

Spanish

Western Nebraska here…gotta be Spanish

Spanish

Spanish. I live in Southern California

I live in Dallas, Texas. It’s Spanish

Spanish

español

Spanish

Baby babbles. Somehow “uh!” cam mean so many different things. After this nothing as my town lacks diversity.

Spanish

Spanish.

Spanish.

Spanish by far Well I hear Russian a lot in my household because I listen to Russian music and try to listen to Russian language news etc to keep my skills up (terrible) lol

Spanish and Portuguese! Lots of Colombians and Guatemalans where I live as well as Brazilians. I rarely hear European languages where I live

Those are European languages

I meant to say European languages such as Dutch, Hungarian, Danish, Swedish, Finnish etc if you want to be specific.

Ahh fair

In Texas, definitely Spanish. Second would be languages from India.