The world passed by me the other day as I made my way from Brussels to Geneva via a Brussels train station, Brussels airport, Geneva airport, and train several train stations in Switzerland.
I consciously listened to the languages people were speaking in these places, and tried to figure out their culture. There were some languages I did not know, but most of them I could identify. They were:
- French
- German
- Dutch (and Flemish)
- English
- Chinese (of some variety)
- Italian
- Russian
- Thai or Vietnamese (a tonal language which always sounds like the person is angry!)
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Norwegian or Danish (could not tell)
- Portugese
- Japanese
- An African language/dialect which I could not identify
- Polish
Not a bad start to the day! And it was not even mid-afternoon yet!
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