To ask how many countries you've lived in?

[yorkshireteas]

Just that really. I'd love to live in France, Germany and USA

5, including England where I was born.

(On 3 continents)

England
Norway
France
Spain
Japan
China
Hong Kong

1. Mostly in my twenties. I'm very lucky - all out of choice.

1. Scotland, England, Russia, Sweden, China, Germany, USA.

Again, it depends on definitions of "lived in'. If several years, 3 (US, Italy, Thailand). If 1 year, 4 (add India). If +6 months, 8 (add Spain, France, Malaysia, Germany). And what wonderful experiences! I'd do them all again, even though I'm still currently in the middle of one of them (and still might!)

Out of interest, other posters and OP- what would you consider to count as 'lived in' instead of just 'travelled to'?. I always thought 1 year min would mean I lived there, until I met a (very lovely) american girl who told me that she had lived in the same part of Thailand as me - when I asked for how long, she said three months! If just consider that a trip, not living abroad. But lots of people agreed with her, hence why I started counting places I'd 'lived' for around 6 months. What do you think?

UK, Israel, France, Belgium, Romania, Austria, Poland, Nigeria.

3 -Australia, England, Scotland

I also spent 2 months in Mexico. I need to travel more.

5

That’s a good question Meggy. When I was 17 I lived in Norway for a month- it was a long time away at that stage and I was with a family (not mine and not an exchange) i always classed it as living. Since then I have holidayed for longer in different countries but never felt the same. I did work in Norway- maybe it was a teenage ‘living’?

UK, Ireland (Dublin) and now call Portugal home.

Two.

England, Wales, Holland, USA

3 including the UK - which is not my country of birth - all within the EU.

@MeggyD I'd say 6 months and more is classed as "living".

@Iwantaspangran I also did live in Germany for 8 weeks when I was 18, that was during the summer. But I don't think that's actually living living ..

I'd also like to ask the posters who's lived in non speaking countries, how long did it take before you could speak the language fluently?

Sorry non English speaking counties

Scotland, England, Ireland and 4 months in OZ.

1. Next year I will have been in England longer than I lived in my home country.

Five including UK .
Re language - have been in china for 10 years and still do not speak fluent mandarin. I can do everything I need to do and type mandarin, but cannot write characters.

4 countries: my native one, the UK, Germany and Italy. It took me about 5 months to get by on German and about a year to be fully fluent. I learnt Italian in 3 months.

I'm good at languages, but if you really try, it shouldn't take much longer than that

I mean it shouldn't take much longer for Latin script languages. Totally different for Mandarin and other tonal languages

1. I left my country 10+ years ago with the intention of working away for 12 months. I returned home last year with a husband, toddler and cat in tow.