Friday, January 13, 2012

Language, Language...

Language : Illustration of Thank you in many languages
Photo courtesy 123rf.com

There are 2,700 languages spoken on Earth.  There are 7,000 dialects.  1,000 of the world's languages are spoken in Africa.  For more information click here.

I am studying Mandarin Chinese in the anticipation of possibly visiting China in August 2013.  I thought that the sounds of Chinese words would have no relationship to the sounds of the same words in other languages, but I am discovering that this is not true.  I also like discovering palindromes in different languages.  What interesting discovery have you made while studying a language different from your native language?

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