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ARTICLE: A New Year’s
Resolution to Learn a New Language by Emma
Rath
Danny Glover, the famous American actor, once
said that his new year’s resolution was to learn
French, because everyone he wants to speak with in
West Africa speaks French. If you would like your
fun new year’s resolution to be to learn a new
language, then there are quite a few different ways
you can go about it.
Perhaps you’ve been wanting to learn the language of
your Grandmother. Perhaps you would benefit from
learning an official language or unofficial second
language of your country, such as French in Canada
or Spanish in USA. Or Greek in Melbourne Australia!
Apparently the second largest Greek-speaking city in
the world after Athens, in terms of number of people
who speak Greek, is Melbourne Australia! Or perhaps
you feel like learning something that feels exotic
like Japanese or Swahili. One Saturday in November
2004, the national Canadian newspaper the “The Globe
and Mail” put its entire front page in Chinese,
explaining that with the globalization of jobs,
Chinese will probably be a necessary business
language of the future.
Read the rest
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