To ask how many countries you've lived in?

[yorkshireteas]

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

8 and maybe early next year will be the 9th

NZ, OZ, Trinidad, Bahrain, Canada (x2), England, Norway, USA

After NZ, All for work, except the England move, that was for love

Only one country and in only one town!

But lots of people agreed with her, hence why I started counting places I'd 'lived' for around 6 months. What do you think?

I think 6+ months is reasonable.

I spent all my school holidays in Germany because I had a parent there, but I wouldn't class it as living there. I didn't attend school or hold down a job, I didn't rent a house or pay bills, I didn't register to pay tax, etc.

Good question though.

7... and we are thinking of hopping along again before Christmas 🤦‍♀️

UK
Australia
Canada

3 including the UK.

I'd say you have a talent, green butterfly
Languages are tough for some folk!

3

UK, Saudi Arabia, Netherlands, Indonesia, Kazakhstan.

UK and USA. I’ll be staying in the USA permanently.

India, Vietnam, England, Papua New Guinea, Sweden, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, Thailand, Zimbabwe TEN ! 36 house moves ....

oh and languages:
Indonesian, good conversational level in 3months
Dutch, good conversational level in 5 months
Russian, good conversational level in 12-18 months

that assumes you are using the language outside the home daily, and socialising with local speakers.

3 -uk Canada and Germany

One. I live about a quarter of a mile from where I was born.

Five. I wanted more but I can't now

yorkshireteas

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?

It didn't take me long, but where I was, a lot of people spoke limited English, which I think helped. I'm not as fluent now as I was ten years ago I'm not old I promise

7

4 - England, France, Singapore and South Africa. All as an adult - my twenties have pretty much been spent working abroad.

DH is on a lot more:
Australia, India, France, England, Netherlands, Wales, Singapore, Kuwait, South Africa, Philippines, Switzerland and Slovakia.

That’s across about a 17 year span of him being an adult.

3

I've lived & worked in 5 countries (including the U.K.)

Greece, England, Saudi Arabia and the Netherlands

4 if you can include staying in a country for 6 months

Have spent lots of time in two other countries

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UK
Australia
Spain
France
Peru

I’m currently really struggling with my fourth country: France. May be I’m too old for all that.