This post is only worth two of three points since it is an additional, originally-unplanned blog. It is only here to help out those who did not get posts in early.
Check out this infographic about languages (look at the images not just the bulleted list at the top.)
http://www.edudemic.com/language-quiz/
Write a reaction in English of at least two sentences.
Ideas: what surprised you? what did you Google to find out more about? how do some of these facts compare with things in the US or Columbiana County?
I was surprised when I read that you need about 2,000 characters of Chinese to read a newspaper. Although, I wasn't that surprised when I read that 1/4 of the population knows at least a little bit of the English language.
ReplyDeleteVictoria Craver
I was surprised that there were over 7,000 languages in the world.
ReplyDeleteI was also surprised that a language dies ever 14 days. I don't really think any of these compare to the US because there's at most 10 languages in the US
I was surprised to find out that Asia has 2,200 different languages. I couldn’t believe that at least one language die every two weeks.
ReplyDeleteElena Davis