Babel Dorren Gaston
Babel Dorren Gaston English is the world language, except that most of the world doesn't speak it--only one in five people does. He sets out to explore these top twenty world languages, which range…
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Babel Dorren Gaston
English is the world language, except that most of the world doesn't speak it--only one in five people does. He sets out to explore these top twenty world languages, which range from the familiar (French, Spanish) to the surprising (Malay, Javanese, Bengali). Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world's 7.4 billion people in their mother tongues, you would need to know no fewer than twenty languages.
Whether showcasing tongue-tying phonetics or elegant but complicated writing scripts, and mind-bending quirks of grammar, Babel vividly illustrates that mother tongues are like nations: each has its own customs and beliefs that seem as Babel whisks the reader on a delightful journey to every continent of the world, tracing how these world languages rose to greatness while others fell away and showing how speakers today handle the foibles of their mother tongues.