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The Languages of the World
The Languages of the World | Kenneth Katzner
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This third edition of Kenneth Katzner's best-selling guide to languages is essential reading for language enthusiasts everywhere. Written with the non-specialist in mind, its user-friendly style and layout, delightful original passages, and exotic scripts, will continue to fascinate the reader. This new edition has been thoroughly revised to include more languages, more countries, and up-to-date data on populations. Features include: *information on nearly 600 languages *individual descriptions of 200 languages, with sample passages and English translations *concise notes on where each language is spoken, its history, alphabet and pronunciation *coverage of every country in the world, its main language and speaker numbers *an introduction to language families
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teebe
The Languages of the World | Kenneth Katzner
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⚡️I was raised with English, Mohawk and Algonquin.
⚡️Fluently, I‘d say only English but I‘m okay with Spanish, French and ASL. I can understand Mohawk and Algonquin in most situations and I know tiny bits of Italian and Greek.
⚡️I have books in French and Spanish.

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wanderinglynn Wow, that‘s amazing that you know Mohawk & Algonquin. And thanks for playing! 😀 6y
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TiredLibrarian
The Languages of the World | Kenneth Katzner
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1. English

2. Fluently, just English.

Enough to understand (usually) & communicate basic things (probably hilariously for the listeners), Spanish.

Reading knowledge only, French.

3. I think I have a Spanish language reader somewhere, gathering dust.

#HelloThursday @wanderinglynn

wanderinglynn Thanks for playing! 😀 6y
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hilded
The Languages of the World | Kenneth Katzner
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1. Norwegian
2. English and a tiiiny bit of German and Spanish. Also understands Danish and Swedish (quite simular to Norwegian)
3. Lots! Prefer reading in Norwegian though

This was fun 😊
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wanderinglynn I sadly know very little about the Norwegian language. I really need to remedy that! Thanks for playing! 😀 6y
hilded Hehe, I'm guessing that goes for most. We are not that many people, so fully understandable @wanderinglynn 6y
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OrangeMooseReads
The Languages of the World | Kenneth Katzner
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#hellothursday @wanderinglynn
1. Sarcasm. Midwestern English.
2. To spite my many many years of torture in Spanish I can barely speak it. It has become a joke with my mom.
3. I don‘t. I kind of wish I did though ... wait, do Spanish textbooks count? I have one or two of those someplace.

wanderinglynn I speak sarcasm fluently too! 😂 Thanks for playing! 6y
Sace "Sarcasm" ??? 6y
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Tove_Reads
The Languages of the World | Kenneth Katzner
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#hellothursday 1. Finnish and Swedish, bilingual by birth.
2. 13, not fluently, but I get by.
3. Probably 97% of my books. @wanderinglynn

Bostonmomx2 #3 - is that because there isn‘t a large amount of Finnish or Swedish authors? 6y
Tove_Reads @Bostonmomx2 Nope, there are a lot! I can get all of them from the libraries though. 6y
Lcsmcat Wow! I stand in awe of you. 6y
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