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The greatest polyglot in history is believed to be cardinal Giuseppe Gaspardo Mezzofanti (1774-1849), who is reported to have spoken up to a hundred languages fluently (though about fifty of them were "only" dialects). Source: Wikipedia
Multilingualism has been more common in the past than usually supposed; in early times, when most people were members of small language communities, it was necessary to know two or more languages for trade or any other dealings outside one's own town or village. Source: Wikipedia
Another Language (1933): directed by Edward H. Griffith and starring Helen Hayes and Robert Montgomery. Plot Summary: Stella and Victor, who meet, fall in love and marry soon after meeting in Europe, blissfully sail back to the states to meet Victor's family. Source: IMDb
There are about 3.5 million students in the United States with limited English proficiency, which is about 8 percent of the U.S. public school population (41.6 million).
A total of 42 percent of public school teachers have limited-English-proficient (LEP) students in their classes.
Only 28 percent of public school teachers with LEP students in their classes report that they have received formal training to teach LEP students.
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Diglossia: if there is a structural functional distribution of the languages involved, the society is termed 'diglossic'. Typical diglossic areas are those areas in Britain and on the Continent, where a regional language is used in informal, usually oral, contexts, while the state language is used in more formal situations. Source: Wikipedia
Speaking In Tongues by Toni Braxton
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Sweet-And-Sour Tongue
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The word VETO is the same in at least 24 languages: Albanian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, SerboCroatian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish. Source: Word Oddities
Gao Xingjian, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000, writes as fluently in French as in Chinese. According to Mr. Leo Ou-fan Lee, a professor of Chinese literature at Harvard University, "He's very unusual because most contemporary Chinese writers simply are not capable of writing in two languages. He's probably China's first bilingual writer." Read more
You are as many a person as languages you know. (Armenian)
Who knows the language is at home everywhere. (Dutch)
Source: Creative Proverbs
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