2. reading comprehension
- How do deaf people communicate?
- In which languages tones are important?
- Is the Basque family taken as a large language family?
- What can language families be divided into?
- How do languages change and evolve?
- Do Japanese have many loan words?
- What is the world's most common language? What language has the largest number of second language speakers?
- Do children and adults learn a second language in the same way?
- How fast do languages disappear in the world?
3. usage
- ... In contrast, ... (line 22)
- ... a child's brain actually acquires a new language differently than an adult's brain does. (line 62-64)
- Some languages are used by millions of people. Others have only a few speakers. (解釋)
- The English word "tomorrow" was borrowed from Nahuatl, an American Indian language spoken in Mexico, ... (line 39-40) （解釋）
- The world's most common language is Mandarin Chinese, which has more than one billion speakers. (line 53-54) （解釋）
5. preposition
- millions of people (line 4)
- ..., meaning is expressed through a system of characters ... (line 7)
- Many hearing-impaired people use sign language, in which gestures do the work of the sound system of spoken languages. (line 10-11)
- ... at least 500 languages ... (line 21)
- ..., and are divided into closely related branches. (line 28-29)
- For example, the English word "byte" was invented by ... (line 37)
- refer to (line 42)
- come into contact with (line 47)
- People learn languages by listening, reading, and using the language. (line 58)
- at a rapid rate (line 73)
- on average (line 74)
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