Archive for June, 2010
Four Languages with the Most Difficult Letter
Mandarin Language
Mandarin is the dialect spoken along the north and southwest of China. The word “Mandarin”, in English, used to translate different Chinese terms that refer to the categories of Chinese spoken language. Like various other Chinese-language varieties, there are many who argue that it is a kind of Mandarin dialects, not languages.
Korean
Korean language is the language most widely used in Korea, and is the official language of South Korea and North Korea. The language is also spoken widely in Yanbian in China’s northeast. Overall there are around 78 million Korean speakers around the world including large groups in the Soviet Union, the United States, Canada and Japan. Official classification of the Korean language is still not universally approved, but is regarded by many as a language isolate. Some experts put it into language Altaic language group. Korean language is also similar to many Japanese languages but status is also unclear. Korean writing system called Hangul original. Literacy-Sino-Korean characters (Hanja) was also used to write the Korean language. Although the words most commonly used is the Hangul, more than 70% of Korean vocabulary consists of words formed from Hanja or taken from Mandarin.
10 Languages are Frequently Used in the World
Languages practically is one of the most beautiful gift given by God to man. Imagine if in this world there is no language or there is only one language, whether perhaps the scientists could create an important discoveries? Then, there is little actual number of languages in the world? According to Ethnologies, there are currently about 6912 languages spoken around the world. This amount is of course still doubt its accuracy because every day there is new language that may appear, on the contrary there is an extinct language. Below is the list of 10 major languages of the world’s most widely used starting from the sequence:
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Why English Languages is So Important?
The nature of language, in general, is to learn to communicate. Because language is the most effective media to convey messages to the another people. Therefore, whatever the language used in communication, is part of a culture that is very important.
English has been recognized as an international language. That is, people who come from diverse backgrounds geography, religion and culture already have a media that was agreed to communicate with each other, namely English. English provides the space for the widest possible for us to dissolve a part of a global community of the world community. While the benefits of English competence are:
Academic Purpose. Book supposedly called the warehouse was apparently a lot of science written in English, so for student academics, the book should be read everyday.