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She could improve her foreign languages.

Beyond my career, my facility with languages has given me a few rare opportunities.

I have learned many languages, but I've not mastered them the way the professional interpreter or translator has.

In fact, English has words from many other languages as well.

Oh, all languages are difficult to learn.

So speakers of those languages will find many familiar words in English.

Educators may fear that children hearing two languages will become permanently confused and thus their language development will be delayed ;this concern is not documented in the literature.

Teachers consider learning two languages to be too43for children from poor families, believing that the children are already burdened by their home situations

It is a tool of communication among speakers of different languages.

Esperanto is an artificial language, designed to serve internationally as an auxiliary means of communication among speakers of different languages

But in Bangladesh, a population 600 times greater, speaks only 41 languages.

For example, the 250,000 people who live on Vanuatu's 80 islands speak 110 different languages.

It has become the world's most widely read magazine, selling 28 million copies each month in 17 languages and 41 different editions.

It has brought English into homes and pushed out traditional storytelling and family time together, accelerating the extinction of native languages.

Most early books were printed in Latin, but the market for Latin was limited, and in its pursuit of larger markets, the book trade soon produced translations into the national languages emerging at the time.

Printing indeed played a key role in standardizing and stabilizing these languages by fixing them in print, and producing dictionaries and grammar books.

The decline in American Indian languages has historical roots.

The great cultural impact of printing was that it facilitated the growth of national languages.

These prior efforts all examined the degree to which different environmental, social, and geographic variables correlated with a number of languages found in a given location.

They live in 16 different communities and speak 16 distinct languages.

Already well over 400 of the total of 6, 800 languages are close to extinction, with only a few elderly speakers left.

As more and more people speak the global languages of English, Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic, other languages are rapidly disappearing.

At present, the world has about 6800 languages.

Documenting the Thangmi language and culture is just a starting point for Turin, who seeks to include other languages and oral traditions across the himalayan reaches of India, Nepal, Bhutan, and China.

Europe has only around 200 languages; the Americas about 1000; Africa 2400; and asia and the pacific perhaps 3200, of which papua new guinea alone accounts for well over 800.

How many languages are spoken by less than 6000 people at present?

Human development results in fewer languages.

In an effort to prevent language loss, scholars from a number of organizations—UNESCO and national geographic among them—have for many years been documenting dying languages and the cultures they reflect.

In fact, half of the 6, 000-7, 000 languages spoken around the world today will likely die out by the next century, according to the united nations educational, scientific and cultural organization UNESCO.

It can also speak different languages and make recommendations for different items based on what the customer is shopping for.

Languages have been coming and going for thousands of years, but in recent times there has been less coming and a lot more going.

Many scholars are making efforts to rescue disappearing languages.

Mark Turin, a scientist at the Macmillan Centre Yale University, who specializes in the languages and oral traditions of the himalayas, is following in that tradition.

People's lifestyles are reflected in fewer languages.

Some language experts believe that 10000 years ago, when the world had just five to ten million people, they spoke perhaps 1200 languages between them.

Soon afterwards, many of those people started settling down to become farmers, and their languages too became more settled and fewer in number.

Thanks to digital technology and the widely available Internet, Turin notes, the endangered languages can be saved and reconnected with speech communities.

The distribution of these languages is hugely uneven.

The general rule is that mild zones have relatively few languages, often spoken by many people, while hot, wet zones have lots, often spoken by small numbers.

The median number(中位数) of speakers is a mere 6000, which means that half the world's languages are spoken by fewer people than that.

The spoken languages were enough in all my interactions.

his concern is mainly with the humanities: literature, languages, philosophy and so on.

In order to study particular cultures as completely as possible, he became skilled in linguistics, the study of languages, and in physical anthropology, the study of human biology and anatomy.

Programming languages have a quick turnover, so the "Ruby on Rails" language they learned may not even be relevant by the time they enter the job market.

The report also advocates greater study of foreign languages, international affairs and the expansion of study abroad programs.