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English as a lingua franca (ELF) is the use of the English language "as a global means of inter-community communication" [1] [2] [full citation needed] and can be understood as "any use of English among speakers of different first languages for whom English is the communicative medium of choice and often the only option".
Project Lingua, or just Lingua is an online translation community formed in the end of 2006 [1] with the goal of translating articles from the global citizen media project Global Voices Online from English into other languages, opening lines of distributed [2] communication between bloggers across the world.
[13] [14] Having patient-physician language discordant pairs (i.e. Spanish-speaking patient with an English-speaking physician) may also lead to greater medical expenditures and thus higher costs to the organization. [15] Additional communication problems result from a decrease or lack of cultural competence by providers.
Story at a glance A review found non-English speakers are underrepresented in pediatric research. Hundreds of studies assessed specifically excluded non-English speaking participants. Researchers ...
Sep. 11—The number of non-English speaking students in Springfield City Schools has more than quadrupled — up 350 percent in four years — including hundreds of Haitian immigrants, prompting ...
A lingua franca (/ ˌ l ɪ ŋ ɡ w ə ˈ f r æ ŋ k ə /; lit. ' Frankish tongue '; for plurals see § Usage notes), also known as a bridge language, common language, trade language, auxiliary language, link language or language of wider communication (LWC), is a language systematically used to make communication possible between groups of people who do not share a native language or dialect ...
A TikToker shared a famous song that mimics what English sounds like to non-English speakers, . Daniel Wall (@danielswall) shared a clip from Italian Adriano Celentano's song ...
Most Swiss nowadays learn English to communicate to Swiss speaking other native languages, as English is neutral among speakers of different national languages, making it a lingua franca, with no one national language dominating the other. [208]