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"Knowledge
of the structure and content of a foreign (non-English) language including the
meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition and grammar, and
pronunciation."
Source:
careers.org
A foreign language is a
language
indigenous to
another country. It is also a language not spoken in the native country of the
person referred to, i.e. an English speaker living in Japan can say that
Japanese is a
foreign language to him or her. These two characterisations do not exhaust the
possible definitions, however, and the label is occasionally applied in ways
that are variously misleading or factually inaccurate.
Some children learn more than one language from birth or from a very young age:
they are
bilingual
or
multilingual.
These children can be said to have two, three or more mother tongues: neither
language is foreign to that child, even if one language is a foreign language
for the vast majority of people in the child's birth country. For example, a
child learning English from her
English
father and Japanese at school in Japan can speak both English and Japanese, but
neither is a foreign language to her A German student learning French."
Source:
Wikipedia "It’s estimated that
up to 7,000 different languages
are spoken around the world. 90% of these languages are used by less than
100,000 people. Over a million people converse in 150-200 languages and 46
languages have just a single speaker!" Source:
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