The big question: can the world economy in its current condition sustain the advancement of English as a language of international business in the foreseeable future?
Good knowledge of French (as a working language of the United Nations system) would be an asset.
It's not just about a better understanding of communication over the ages, either, as the timeline of a language can also play a useful role in determining the order of pre-history events, such as the movement of populations over a continent.
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He faces the theoretical part of his German driving test, and for a foreigner that is as much a test of the German language as the highway code.
Scots Gaelic, really only still spoken as a native language in a few of the Western Islands.
The pair also opened a school that used the Kaurna language as a medium of instruction for almost six years before it was closed down by the authorities, who would only tolerate English.
Plaid Cymru AM Simon Thomas, whose mid and west region includes Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire, ties the future of Welsh as a living language to the state of the economy in rural Wales.
This suggests that the brain may treat musical notation as a form of language.
The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.
The pre-eminence of the City as a financial centre and of English as the language of world business are also both vital in pulling in foreign workers.
The Subcontinent also holds a special cachet for publishers, both as a market and as a source of English-language writers, especially following the international success of authors like Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth and Arundhati Roy.
Concerns were also raised by a number of members that the Welsh Language Board would be scrapped as a result of the measure.
Still, to the extent that India, with its many languages and cultures, persists as a cohesive national entity, the language of Macaulay plays a large role.
In 1957 his election to the Royal Academy of Language consolidated Mr Cela as a member of Spain's cultural establishment.
Daily output will be reduced by two hours, with popular classical and instrumental music, as well as a number of English language and international artists, played during the daytime.
Using images as parts of speech yields a new sort of language.
This is extremely cool in my view, and takes a significant step toward the Holy Grail of removing language as a barrier between people.
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While the first minister was on a mission to China to promote trade and cultural links, that country's consul general highlighted the importance of foreign language assistants in acting as a "bridge of cultural exchanges".
Real estate has a succinct language of its own that serves as a defining and selling tool.
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Instead of welcoming each new immigrant as a potential instructor of his or her language in exchange for learning English, we have marginalized our immigrant population and reject their mother tongues while offering antiquated, often inaccessible English training.
Language, it appears, remains a persistent barrier to international marriage in Europe and the spread of English as a second language does not seem to have changed that.
Many of Depardieu's critics in France have preferred to use the language of sarcasm, dismissing him as a troubled figure out of touch with the realities of his fellow countrymen.
True, native speakers generally regard the seven to 13 mostly mutually unintelligible variants as dialects of a single language.
English was forced upon our education system as a primary language, so there's a huge chunk of native Welsh who cannot speak Welsh Things are getting better however.
Jennifer Powell-Lunder, a clinical psychologist and author of "Teenage as Second Language: A Parent's Guide to Becoming Bilingual, " says midcareer professionals must be especially vigilant about recognizing when they sound like teen wannabes.
Though the Internet boasts users from dozens of countries, the alphabet is dominant, as is the English language -- a legacy of the Net's North American origins.
Rankin and her team focused on a a specific type of neurodegenerative disease called frontotemporal dementia, or FTD, a group of disorders in which patients can experience behavioral symptoms such as personality changes, a loss of inhibition and social tact as well as language difficulties, such as an inability to understand words.
"The demise of the Welsh language can be seen as a symptom - We respect the values of vibrant communities, be they Welsh-speaking or not, " he added.
Earlier, lawmakers had debated and rejected an amendment to the bill that would have designated English as the "official language" of the United States, seen as a likely setback to chances for Spanish-speaking Puerto Rico to become the 51st state.
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