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  2. Multilingualism - Wikipedia

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    The frontage of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, with text written in eleven of South Africa's twelve official languages A multilingual sign outside the mayor's office in Novi Sad, Serbia, written in the four official languages of the city: Serbian, Hungarian, Slovak, and Pannonian Rusyn A stenciled danger sign in Singapore written in English, Chinese, Tamil, and Malay (the four ...

  3. History of English - Wikipedia

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    e. English is a West Germanic language that originated from Ingvaeonic languages brought to Britain in the mid-5th to 7th centuries AD by Anglo-Saxon migrants from what is now northwest Germany, southern Denmark and the Netherlands. The Anglo-Saxons settled in the British Isles from the mid-5th century and came to dominate the bulk of southern ...

  4. History of the Irish language - Wikipedia

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    The version of English spoken in Ireland, known as Hiberno-English bears similarities in some grammatical idioms with Irish. Writers who have used Hiberno-English include J.M. Synge, Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde and more recently in the writings of Seamus Heaney, Paul Durcan, and Dermot Bolger. [34] [35]

  5. Regional accents of English - Wikipedia

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    A 2005 census showed that around 30% of Singaporeans speak English as their main language at home. [23] There are many foreigners working in Singapore. 36% of the population in Singapore are foreigners, and foreigners make up 50% of the service sector. [24] Therefore, it is very common to encounter service staff who are not fluent in English.

  6. Powell Janulus - Wikipedia

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    Powell Janulus. Powell Alexander Janulus (born 1939) is a Canadian polyglot who lives in White Rock, British Columbia, and entered the Guinness World Records in 1985 for fluency in 42 languages. [1] To qualify, he had to pass a two-hour conversational fluency test with a native speaker of each of the 42 languages he spoke at that time.

  7. Language immersion - Wikipedia

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    Language immersion, or simply immersion, is a technique used in bilingual language education in which two languages are used for instruction in a variety of topics, including maths, science, or social studies. The languages used for instruction are referred to as the L1 and the L2 for each student, with L1 being the student's native language ...

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