Pronunciation of the English word languages.
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1. | The 26th of September is the European Day of Languages. The Council of Europe wants to draw attention to the multilingual heritage of Europe, to foster the evolution of multilingualism in society and to encourage citizens to learn languages. Tatoeba, as an easy-to-use learning tool and an active community, promotes the study and appreciation of languages in a very practical way. | |
2. | All History shows: idioms of dominant states often lead to the disappearance of the languages of the dominated states. Greek engulfed the Phrygian. Latin killed the Iberian and Gallic. Currently, 25 languages are disappearing every year! Understand one thing: I'm not fighting against English, I fight for diversity. An Armenian proverb wonderfully summarizes my thought: "The more languages you know, the more you are a person." | |
3. | The European Union has 24 official languages. But important texts are often available only in three languages: English, French and German. This constitutes a disadvantage for anyone who isn't versed with any of these languages. It's already high time to think about a neutral, common bridge language. | |
4. | I have to some extent studied all of these utopias about creating a perfect language or from some original Adamic language, to those languages that are called universal, such as Esperanto, Volapük and others that aim not to be perfect languages but to be auxiliary languages. | |
5. | The European Union has 23 official languages, theoretically with the same rights, but in practice only 3 working languages: English, French and German. | |
6. | Languages are not carved in stone. Languages live through all of us. | |
7. | If in Tatoeba all the languages are equal, why are there more sentences in favor of Esperanto than in favor of the rest of the languages? | |
8. | Contributors from many countries, languages and cultures speak the language Esperanto in addition to their mother tongue and one or more other languages. | |
9. | C is the perfect "other extreme" to Python. It’s the most low level of the mainstream programming languages, and almost universally serves as glue between other languages and systems. | |
10. | It may be impossible to get a completely error-free corpus due to the nature of this kind of collaborative effort. However, if we encourage members to contribute sentences in their own languages rather than experiment in languages they are learning, we might be able to minimize errors. |