Contemplating a Curriculum for Human Languages Literacy, Part 4: Languages change over time – sometimes systematically, sometimes arbitrarily This blog entry is the fourth (4th) in a multi-part series describing what a curriculum for human languages literacy might look like.…
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CCHLL, Part 3: Languages have specific differences which can be compared and contrasted
Contemplating a Curriculum for Human Languages Literacy, Part 3: Languages have specific differences which can be compared and contrasted This blog entry is the third (3rd) in a multi-part series describing what a curriculum for human languages literacy might look…
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Contemplating a Curriculum for Human Languages Literacy, Part 1: Introduction
This blog entry is the start of a 6 or 7 (or 8?) part series over the next week or two describing what a curriculum for human languages literacy might look like. What do I mean by the term language literacy or…
Languages with the most speakers, native and non-native
The chart in this article might help you decide what foreign language to learn next: agenda.weforum.org/2015/10/which-languages-are-most-widely-spoken/ But I think it is also interesting to work backwards to notice what languages have the most non-native speakers. English clearly has the most,…
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