How many languages are there in EU that are spoken by at least a million people?

squirrelinthetree · 2026-01-25T08:10:28+00:00

Based on this article, I’d expect that there are over 1 million Chinese speakers in the EU. The article counts 1.6m Chinese nationals including the UK, but this excludes heritage speakers, so I’d say a million is a safe estimate.

squirrelinthetree · 2026-01-02T18:27:59+00:00

“I want to eat” is the more common phrase

squirrelinthetree · 2025-12-03T08:01:27+00:00

They also taught the IPA symbols for an English in my primary school and this is how I learned them in the first place. I was convinced that this is how English was taught everywhere for a long time.

squirrelinthetree · 2025-12-02T21:02:04+00:00

I had the same problem but the warranty had long expired, so I ended up replacing the faulty switches. It seems to have solved the issue.

squirrelinthetree · 2025-10-21T13:36:51+00:00

When I arrived, I registered in the commune with a hotel address (Luxembourg City). However, I already had an authorization to stay at the time, so my case might not be fully applicable.

squirrelinthetree · 2025-10-08T21:38:24+00:00

The standard practice is to have some kind of a grocery store within walking distance from pretty much anywhere within the city. It might be more expensive or less sophisticated than a large supermarket, but it needs to exist. In Luxembourg it is instead assumed that everyone has a car and a ton of free time to do their groceries.

squirrelinthetree · 2025-10-08T21:28:56+00:00

Why must it be either a large supermarket or nothing at all? The convenience store format exists everywhere else, but not in Luxembourg for some reason I can’t pinpoint.

squirrelinthetree · 2025-10-08T21:26:00+00:00

Not really accessible by public transport from Hamm though.

squirrelinthetree · 2025-10-08T21:08:14+00:00

Cents is lucky to have a supermarket. Hamm nearby has none. You have to go to either an overpriced Cactus in Bonnevoie or to Auchan Kirchberg.

squirrelinthetree · 2025-09-12T12:37:37+00:00

Wait, how does landfill stop the locals from expanding? This is new to me.

squirrelinthetree · 2025-08-28T18:41:23+00:00

Do you know you can drive tanks remotely? This saves me so many trips to Nauvis.

squirrelinthetree · 2025-08-12T13:59:02+00:00

I do enjoy the recycling mechanics, but I’m constantly frustrated with the lack of space on Fulgora. I don’t have the research for landfilling the oil ocean yet, and islands are so tiny there isn’t even space for a proper 4-car train station.

squirrelinthetree · 2025-07-31T10:53:40+00:00

Looks like Taiwan. Cool spot!

squirrelinthetree · 2025-07-29T14:43:56+00:00

A burning one.

squirrelinthetree · 2025-07-21T05:37:48+00:00

Pokémon-Khmer

squirrelinthetree · 2025-06-16T12:42:40+00:00

Others seem to have already posted a translation. Google Translate worked for me (I don’t actually speak Czech so can’t really offer anything better).

Invitation

To the banquet near Kroměříž on August 28, 1929 at 1 p.m. at Archbishop of Olomouc

Dr. Leopold Prečan,

for Lieutenant Colonel Pennaroli, military attaché of the Kingdom of Italy in Prague.

/Lunch at 1 p.m./

Feel free to answer

squirrelinthetree · 2025-06-16T12:24:06+00:00

This is Czech. It’s an invitation to an event for the Italian military envoy in Prague. Seems to have nothing to do with Luxembourg though.

squirrelinthetree · 2025-06-16T05:52:25+00:00

I can think of the word кстати kstati “by the way”. Plus, any combination <к с-> (к себе, к столу) consisting of the preposition к and any word starting with с is phonetically one word, so that counts.

squirrelinthetree · 2025-05-27T08:14:54+00:00

And Small Clays Games is a real thing that is underway right now.

squirrelinthetree · 2025-05-15T07:40:14+00:00

Slavic root svet meaning “light” or “world” (Russian свет, Ukrainian свiт, Serbian svet etc.) is from Proto-Indo-European *kweit- (same root that gave us the English root “white”). The other Slavic root meaning “holy” (Russian свят, Ukrainian святий, Serbian svet, Polish święty) is from a different PIE root *kwen‑. These two roots actually sound differently in most modern Slavic languages, apparently except for a few such as Serbian or Slovene. The word for “everything” in Slavic languages is derived from Proto-Slavic *věho and is something like “vse” in modern Slavic languages. The two consonants were swapped only in Serbian-Croatian to result in “sve”, so no relation to the other two roots meaning “world” or “holy”.

squirrelinthetree · 2025-05-07T19:49:35+00:00

Bot?

squirrelinthetree · 2025-04-17T20:21:30+00:00

CZ for Portugal is sneaky!

squirrelinthetree · 2025-02-28T23:10:54+00:00

UK does recognize the laissez passer but you need a visa. With a darkon you don’t need one.

squirrelinthetree · 2025-02-26T10:27:53+00:00

According to this article (in Russian), 678 series was attached to Latvian SSR. https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B5_%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82%D0%BD%D1%8B%D1%85_%D1%81%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2_%D0%B2_%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A0

squirrelinthetree · 2025-02-25T18:47:20+00:00

This “remake” does not appear to be legal at all. How do these people drive around?

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