Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages by Gaston Dorren

Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages

Gaston Dorren

361 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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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 fe...

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