there are about 439 languages and dialects, according to the 2009 ethnologue estimate indo-european languages are spoken by almost three billion native speakers,2 the largest number by far for any recognised language famil 5、y. of the twenty languages with the largest numbers of native speakers ...
[2]thelargestnumberbyfarforanyrecognisedlanguagefamily.OfthetwentylanguageswiththelargestnumbersofnativespeakersaccordingtoSILEthnologue,twelveareIndo-European:Spanish,English,Hindi,Portuguese,Bengali,Russian,German,Marathi,French,Italian,Punjabi,andUrdu,accountingforover1.7billionnativespeakers.[3]Severaldisputed...
After learning about our styles of communicating with each other, I have decided that although men have not quite mastered communicating, what fun would it be if we all spoke the same “language” The little games men and women play with each other while conversing would be lost. The ...
【题目】The number of speakers of English in Shakespeare’s time is estimated to have been about five million. Today it is estimated that some 260 million people speak it as a native language, mainly in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, South Africa, Australia and New ...
Meanwhile, the number of language immersion schools designed to teach a second language to English-speaking children and young adults has actually increased. Since 1962, 367 two-way immersion programs-schools that pair native English speakers with those who speak another native language-have developed...
Number of Speakers The inhabitants of the Italian Republic numbered about 57 million in 2002. The number of speakers of Italian is, however, more difficult to establish, mainly because there is no simple way of relating the use of the Italian language with Italian ethnic origin or cultural alle...
Many ESL students know more grammar than native speakers. I can confidently say this with experience. I am a native English speaker, majored in English Literature, and have been teaching English for more than 10 years. However, many of my students know more details about English gr...
Finally, decisions need to be made with respect to the domains in which "small," endangered, or minority languages continue to be used. From the discussion of domains we develop an alternative vision that centers not on distinct, named, countable languages, but on speakers and repertoires, and...
Communicating with native English speakers is a very rewarding experience from which we can learn a lot.4. Today, more and more people have access to the Internet through which they look for the information they need.5. He wants her to give up working and s...
You could swap the words for others with a similar meaning (e.g. “when you get to a particular stage of life…”) and still be saying essentially the same thing. But “a woman of a certain age” is an idiom, a fixed sequence of words which functions as a single unit. If you ...