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World Languages: Hindi

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Number 4: Hindi We’re already at the fourth most spoken language in the world. Can you believe it! This week we will be covering Hindi. There are roughly 260 million…

World Languages: Arabic

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Number 5: Arabic We’re half way through our countdown and have made it to the fifth most spoken language in the world: Arabic! As a recap, we’ve covered Javanese (10th),…

World Languages: Portuguese

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Number 6: Portuguese We’re almost half way through our list of the world’s most spoken languages. This week we are covering number six: Portuguese! The Portuguese language is native to…

World Languages: Bengali

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Number 7: Bengali Can you guess the seventh most spoken language in the world? You guessed it! This week we are covering Bengali ¬¬– a language native to Bangladesh. Almost…

World Languages: Russian

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Number 8: Russian With two of the top 10 languages under our belt – Javanese and Japanese – we move to number eight! Russian is the eighth most common language in…

World Languages: Japanese

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World Language Series Number 9: Japanese This week we are learning about the Japanese language! According to Ethnologue this language has the ninth largest group of native speakers in the…

World Languages: Javanese

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World Language Series Over the next 10 weeks we’ll be teaching you about the top ten languages spoken in the world. Of course, the top ten languages are difficult to…

Language and Dialect

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Language vs. Dialect Many of you may believe that language and dialect are the same thing. This is a common thought, but the distinction between language and dialect is a…

Tactics to raising bilingual children

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Raising Bilingual Children Raising bilingual children is a challenge no matter how many languages you know. We’ve complied a few tips to help guide you enforce your family’s bilingual habits.…