Mastering foreign languagesPercentage of Americans who say they can speak more than one language:Source: Pimsleur online survey of 2,020 adults in the USUSA TODAY ……

is becoming smaller and countries are getting closer and closer to each other. People speaking two languages..., the number of Americans taking a Chinese class increased by 51 percent from 2001 to 2006. Other popular ……

.In the world village there are almost 6,000 languages.But more than half of the people speak these 8 languages:9 speak English7 speak Spanish (西班牙语)22 speak Chinese4 speak Arabic (阿拉伯语)8 speak Hindi ……

adults are not, in general, proficient (精通的) in foreign languages. Only 27 percent of them can speak a foreign tongue.The chart on the right shows Americans’ mastery of second languages. Take a look. ……

, but people in Brazil speak Portuguese. A few of the smaller countries speak some other languages as well.... is also a talent for many Latin Americans. Many singers there are internationally famous. Shakira ……

导地位的)” cultures may drive other languages into extinction. To get better education and jobs, young people have... York Times reported. China is also trying to protect its languages. About 130 languages are spoken ……

美国双语教学普及化 汉语西语教学班最多
taught in Chinese, Spanish, Korean, and other languages, the Associated Press has reported.It is estimated that about 1 billion people in today’s world speak Chinese, and almost 400 million, Spanish, so ……

by saying some funny words from the film to each other.It's fun to speak Cantonese with my Chinese friends... in Oakland in 1989. Many young Chinese Americans don't learn much Chinese because our parents want us ……

欧盟公布外语能力调查结果 多数英国人不懂外语
two in three Britons are unable to speak any language other than English. This is the worst record... not speak a language other than their mother tongue. This compared with an average of 44 per cent across ……

in its proficiency in foreign languages. Only 18 percent of Americans speak a language other than... speaks many other languages, too. According to a survey by the European Commission in 2012, no less ……

speak another language at home.A number of institutions (机构) in the country are also pushing foreign... languages, thanks to the mental advantages of bilingualism (双语能力).Psychologists once thought ……

of heart emoji than other languages. The French are also the most positive in their use of emoji – 86... related emoji.■Canadians use money-related emoji almost twice as much as the other languages.■When ……

learners than other languages? I am very frustrated by English. Would it be easier to learn another... (which I assume you already speak) and Spanish are also extremely useful around the world because ……

places spoke their own languages. They couldn’t understand each other well. So, in the 1950s, China... languages. They couldn’t understand each other well. So, in the 1950s, China decided on (选定) a common ……

. There's just one problem: Volunteers who speak "minor" languages are in short supply, according to BOCOG. ("Minor" languages refer to foreign languages other than English.)"We have over 700,000 people ……