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Being multilingual is advantageous for people wanting to participate in trade, globalization and cultural openness. [4] Owing to the ease of access to information facilitated by the Internet, individuals' exposure to multiple languages has become increasingly possible. People who speak several languages are also called polyglots. [5]
Luxembourg is a rare example of a truly trilingual society, in that it not only has three official languages – Luxembourgish, French and German [276] – but has a trilingual education system. For the first four years of school, Luxembourgish is the medium of instruction , before giving way to German, which in turn gives way to French.
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Being trilingual himself, the OP was mocked by his American friend for the way he pronounced a word in English. But the mocking didn’t last long, after the redditor clapped back at said friend.
It is classified as an eating disorder but can also be the result of an existing mental disorder. [3] The ingested or craved substance may be biological, natural or manmade. The term was drawn directly from the medieval Latin word for magpie , a bird subject to much folklore regarding its opportunistic feeding behaviors.
Being monolingual or unilingual is also said of a text, dictionary, or conversation written or conducted in only one language, and of an entity in which a single language is either used or officially recognized (in particular when being compared with bilingual or multilingual entities or in the presence of individuals speaking different languages).
There are some food items that are simply hard to eat. Some foods, like ice cream cones, don't require any special equipment to get to the good stuff, but you'd be hard-pressed to finish a whole ...
Linguistic discrimination (also called glottophobia, linguicism and languagism) is unfair treatment of people based upon their use of language and the characteristics of their speech, such as their first language, their accent, the perceived size of their vocabulary (whether or not the speaker uses complex and varied words), their modality, and ...