Its flexibility has led it to become a common language for different communities, promoting communication, unity and creativity.

UNESCO: Intangible Cultural Heritage

Aside from mechanical challenges, what was missing that may have spurred personal robotics development was a dedicated programming language specifically for robot control and communication.

FORBES: Reflections on Personal Robots, Backwards and Forwards

This was accompanied by a proprietorial admission that French has decisively lost the battle for status as the world language and that English is now the established global means of communication, for practical matters and for a growing range of cultural ones.

FORBES: Current Events

Body language was the basis for our earliest form of communication when the split-second ability to recognize if a person or situation was benign or dangerous was often a matter of life or death.

FORBES: The Mistakes People Make Reading Your Body Language

Blaming technology or forms of communication for the breakdown of the English language is always fashionable in every era.

FORBES: Ralph Fiennes Says Twitter is Killing the English Language

And here, the importance of body language for both the speaker and the listener is just as important as in face-to-face communication.

FORBES: Body Language in Second Life

These materials are for use in the third grade in two subject areas: Person, Culture and Nature and Language and Communication (Mother Tongue).

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences