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About this Web Page Welcome to yet another ESL Web Site. This site was created to offer teachers and students a variety of activities, lessons and facts suitable for individual study as well as for classroom use. Lessons are recommended for students at and above intermediate level of English language. |
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Did you know that: We don't know exactly how many languages there are currently in the world, there are estimates from 3 000 to 10 000. In reality there is probably around 4 000 to 5 000 currently living languages. Living languages are languages which have native speakers alive who use it. Extinct languages have no native speakers. Top twenty languages regarding mother tongue speakers: 1. Chinese 2. English 3. Spanish 4. Hindi 5. Arabic Top twenty language with official language population: 1. English 2. Chinese 3. Hindi 4. Spanish 5. Russian (From: Crystal, D. (1995) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.) |