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Babel : Around the World in Twenty Languages by Gaston Dorren is a reference work available to read on EtoBox.
What is Babel : Around the World in Twenty Languages about?
English is the world language, except that most of the world doesn't speak it--only one in five people does. 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. He sets out to explore these top twenty world languages, which range from the familiar (French, Spanish) to the surprising (Malay, Javanese, Bengali). <i>Babel</i> whisks the reader on a delightful journey to every continent o
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Common subject areas: reference, language, dictionaries and manuals.
- Author
- Gaston Dorren
- Publisher
- Grove Atlantic
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780802128799
- Category
- reference
- Subjects
- Language Learning, Historical Fiction, Linguistics
- Rating
- 4.4 / 5 (209 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14