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    The number of languages spoken in the world has been diminishing steadily over the past centuries. According to estimates (Romaine, 2007), scientists suggest that on average, one language may vanish every 14 days,and thousands of languages are on the verge of extinction (Romaine, 2007). Furthermore, more than half of the languages spoken today are expected to disappear in the next 100 years. What is worse, among the 6,000 existing languages (excluding dialects), only about 5% are spoken by more than

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    in Spain. Not in a negative way, but I molded my personality to fit the different culture. I got insight into different cultures and ways of thinking. During history class I understood the debates between my peers who were for independence of the Basque country and those who thought it was ridiculous. I understood when my teachers discussed the current corruption and issues with the Spanish government. I understood my friends during lunch when they were talking about the recent gossip around the

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    Second language acquisition (SLA) has long been a topic of interest for many researchers such as linguists, psychologists, and educators. Through the study of SLA, researchers may better understand the basic properties of languages, how languages are processed in the brain, and how to facilitate the acquisition of a second language. A common topic of inquiry among SLA researchers is why some people seem to learn new languages with ease while others do not. This question is especially important

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    to the Spanish people. For example, in Malaga, the terror had been inflicted on the Spanish people by their own people. Although arguable, the Condor Legion of Germany had committed the greatest acts of terror in 1939. The Condor Legion bombed the Basque town of Guernica on the 26th of April 1937. The bombing raid took place for three and a half hours, without any pauses, and left the town completely destroyed. For Spain the effects of the terror was to strengthen the position of the nationalists

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    development of Catalonia, it is obviously that intellectuals play an essential role in provoking this progress, especially in the maintenance of the Catalan language and culture. Initially, in the result of long-year repression by Catalans, there was a wide gap between intellectual elites and the masses, which threatened the survival of the Catalan language and culture but gradually through three main phenomena, which are the Nova Canco, the Assembly of Catalonia and the proliferation of ‘solidarity actions’

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    Some years ago at one of our frequent family dinners, my paternal grandmother grumbled something in Korean to my mother. Now, after twenty-plus years of exposure to Korean and other foreign languages buzzed about, I've grown quite adept at tuning out most of it, but this time my ears perked up; I heard my name mentioned. I asked my mother, "What did she say?" She muttered, "Nothing, never mind. Eat more spinach." Undeterred by her concern for my dietary habits, I insisted on knowing what my

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    Intro France today is one of the most modern countries in the world and is a leader among European nations. It plays an influential global role as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, NATO, the G-8, the G-20, the EU, and other multilateral organizations. France rejoined NATO 's integrated military command structure in 2009, reversing DE GAULLE 's 1966 decision to withdraw French forces from NATO. Since 1958, it has constructed a hybrid presidential-parliamentary governing system

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    European societies have strong sentiments towards using language and its history as the means of shaping regional identity against national identity. This essay thus discusses the languages of Spain and the United Kingdom. Spain’s 17 autonomous regions are grounded in historical tensions of peripheral, or regional, and nationalist movements, and the struggles to demarcate ethnic values from the civic. It amounted with the Castilian language as the assimilating tool of Franco’s nationalistic regime

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    strengthened their authority and promoted their own language. One of the biggest reason why French suddenly spread is because of Louis XII’s decree on “the reformation of justice” in 1510. This decree stated that French is to be used in every judicial proceeding and civil inquiries and procedures. This decree brought court closer to people. But the most important decree was made by Francois I in 1539. In his decree Francois I stated that French has to be the language of administration. The same edict required

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    non-standard variety of a language with which you are familiar. The difference between Latin American Spanish (LAS) and Castilian Spanish (CS) is something that is increasingly prominent in the global Hispanic society. These differences lie in the grammatical, lexical and phonological features of the two variations of both the variant and the original form of the language. Latin American Spanish, spoken in countries such as Mexico, Panama, Chile and Honduras all adopted the Spanish language in the late 15th

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