If you spoke 20 languages, you could speak to half of the world’s population in their mother tongue and at least communicate with an additional 25%. In this book, the linguist Gaston Dorren dedicates one chapter to each of these 20 languages, and explores some of their characteristics and oddities. The book starts with the language with the fewest speakers, which is Vietnamese, and progresses to the one with the most, English. Dorren always provides some general information on each language first, only to then […]