English is no Esperanto, but as world languages go, it is considerably user-friendly.

英语非为世界语，但与各种世界语言相比，其相当容易掌握。

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Still the one: Mandarin is the long-standing champ among world languages with 845 million native speakers, about 2.5 times as many as English.

遥遥领先：以中文普通话作为母语的人数是世界上最多的，有8.45亿，是英语母语者的2.5倍。

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The Book of Lao Tzu is not only a classic of China, but also one of the most important masterpieces in the world, being translated into almost all of the major world languages.

《老子》这本书不仅是中国经典，而且也是世界经典，世界各种主要语言的译本也都有了。

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Publisher Simon and Schuster says it has sold two hundred million copies of Nancy Drew books in twenty-five languages around the world.

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Most languages around the world have a different word for luck and risk--or luck and fortune.

世上的大多数语言,对运气和风险,或者说运气和机遇,都有另一种表达方式

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So I would highly suggest for everybody in the world to speak at least two languages.

所以我向这个世界上的所有人强烈建议，至少要懂两种语言。

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The same held true for those in physics, medicine, engineering and world languages.

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On his odyssey, Tisquantum learned Old World languages that, combined with his New World survival skills, would contribute to his rendezvous with destiny.

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In an analysis of 504 world languages, Dr. Atkinson found that, on average, dialects with the most phonemes are spoken in Africa, while those with the fewest phonemes are spoken in South America and on tropical islands in the Pacific.

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