Worldwide Multilingual Phrase Book

"How to get by and be easily understood" in Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Serbo-Croat, Spanish.

Paralleled sentences in English, German, French, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish cover situations for passengers, personnel.

Shortlisted for the 2020 BAAL Book Prize This book brings together empirical studies from around the world to help readers gain a better understanding of multilinguals, ranging from small children to elderly people, and their lives. The chapters focus on the multilingual subjects’ identities and the ways in which they are discursively and/or visually constructed, and are split into sections looking specifically at the multilingual self, the multilingual learner and multilingual teacher education. The studies draw on rich visual data, which is analysed for content and/or form and often complemented with other types of data, to investigate how multilinguals make sense of their use and knowledge of more than one language in their specific context. The topic of multilingualism is addressed as subjectively experienced and the book unites the current multilingual, narrative and visual turns in Applied Language Studies. It will be of interest to students and researchers working in the areas of language learning and teaching, teacher education and bi/multilingualism, as well as to those interested in using visual methods and narratives as a means of academic research.

This bold and accessible study of human languages and communication explores issues which are at the forefront of today's globalized society. The human species is divided into more than five thousand language groups that do not understand each other. And yet these groups constitute one coherent world language system, connected by multilingual speakers in a surprisingly powerful way. The chances of a language thriving depend on its position in the system. There are thousands of small, peripheral languages, each connected to one of a hundred central languages. The entire system is held together by one global language: English. A language is a ‘hypercollective' good: the more speakers it has, the higher its communication value for each one of them. Thus, when people think that a language is gaining new speakers, that in itself is a reason for them to want to learn it too. That is why, in an age of globalization, only a few languages remain for transnational communication and these often prevail even in national societies. This important book discusses a number of specific constellations in detail: India, Indonesia, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa and the European Union. De Swaan concludes by providing a sober but illuminating view of language policy in multilingual societies. This book will be essential reading for those studying sociology, communication studies and linguistics.

"How to get by and be easily understood" in Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Serbo-Croat, Spanish.

This book is intended for language learners who enjoy practicing their language skills in person. This book includes different phrases for different scenarios. This book will include phrases and responses in Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese and German. The source language for this book is English. Ambie is a popular YouTuber who shares videos of her speaking in different languages. She is passionate about sharing her language learning secrets with the world. Ambie has worked as an Interpreter for medical offices and law firms in the past. She also runs her own language company called Ambie Method llc. On her website AmbieMethod.com