50 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Languages
Learning another language is important. And even in the United States (where learning non-native language has typically been lagging a bit behind many other countries), nearly all students are studying another language. Languages are a part of everyday life – whether you speak one or more, they are one of the main keys of communication. Other than being able to speak a language (or not being able to speak it) there are a lot of fun facts about languages more generally Did You Know? There are about 7,000 languages in the world. There are 50,000 characters in the Chinese language. You’ll need to know about 2,000 to read a newspaper. 12.44% of the world’s population speaks Mandarin as their first language. There are about 2,200 languages in Asia. 1/4 of the world’s population speaks at least…