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Fluent and able to translate in both languages. Mseames: English: Spanish (Semi-Fluent, can speak and read but my written is intermediate level), French (Moderate, can read), Italian (Moderate, can read), German (Moderate, can read), and Dutch (Basic), Portuguese (Basic, can read). N.samimi island: Persian: English: Obradovic Goran: Serbian
Note that monoglottism can only refer to lacking the ability to speak several languages. Multilingual speakers outnumber monolingual speakers in the world's population. [1] Suzzane Romaine pointed out, in her 1995 book Bilingualism, that it would be weird to find a book titled Monolingualism. [2]
It was a German-language paper, Der Pennsylvanische Staatsbote that on July 5, 1776, was the first paper to report the American Declaration of Independence, and it did so in German translation. English readers would have to wait a day later to read the English text in The Pennsylvania Evening Post .
German is the second most commonly used scientific language [71] [better source needed] as well as the third most widely used language on websites after English and Russian. [72] Deutsche Welle (German pronunciation: [ˈdɔʏtʃə ˈvɛlə]; "German Wave" in German), or DW, is Germany's public international broadcaster. The service is available ...
Thinker78 (talk · contribs) — Near-native English, native Spanish (Guatemala), translator without certification. I can help in verifying a translation, translating up to a paragraph or two mostly, not entire articles. Active since 2020 or before. Magnolia1771 (talk · contribs) - Native Spanish (Spain), near-native English; Active in 2020
[70] [71] The idea of linguistic relativity, which claims that the language people speak influences the way they see the world, can be interpreted to mean that individuals who speak multiple languages have a broader, more diverse view of the world, even when speaking only one language at a time. [72]
For example, the known text of the Till Eulenspiegel folk tales is in High German but contains puns that work only when back-translated to Low German. This seems clear evidence that these tales (or at least large portions of them) were originally written in Low German and translated into High German by an over-metaphrastic translator.
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