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Languages.

The purpose of the lesson is for you to learn more about (foreign) languages that are spoken.
1. Quiz.
2. Answer the following questions:
a. What is your first language?
b. What language or languages can you speak and understand?
c. What is your second language?
d. Do you speak the same language at home as you do at school and with your group of friends? What is the difference?
e. What do you think about when you are in a group and some group members start talking to each other in a different language?
f. What is a dialect? Do you have a dialect of your own?
g. How would you like it if during the lessons, the students who speak another language e.g. Polish, Arabic or Persian, could consult for a while in their own language?
h. If you were to go abroad on vacation, in what language would you be able to make yourself understood?
i. What language or languages can you read and or write?
j. How do you explain something if you don't speak and understand each other's language?
k. In what ways can you learn a language?
l. What do you think is the best way to learn a language?
m. How can we teach the Dutch language in a good way at our school?
Do you have any advice for us?

Quiz: Ten most spoken languages in the world in millions:
Countries:
Bengali - Spanish - German - Russian - Hindi - Arabic - Chinese – Portuguesa - Japanese - English
Number of millions:
1100 - 500 - 300 - 250 - 190 - 180 - 170 - 160 - 120 - 100 million
Countries with the correct number:
Chinese 1100 million
English 500
Spanish 300
Arabic 250
Bengali 190
Hindi 180
Russian 170
Portuguesa 160
Japanese 120
German 100

What is a dialect? Do you have a dialect yourself? A dialect is a language that people speak in a particular area. It is slightly different from the language of the country.


There are about 7000 living main languages of which 2500 are written/spoken. The remaining 4500 are spoken languages only.
There are 41,000 alternative language names and dialects.

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