The study of a foreign language helps improve English vocabulary and its proficiency. ... Out of the languages: French, German, Japanese, and Latin what one is more useful towards global trade and makes it easier to trade? ... Latin, the hardest language to learn for it is basically a dead language, but it is helpful with the rest of the romance and Germanic languages for it is the base of them. ... The students that wanted to take another language wanted, in order, French, German, Japanese, and Latin. ... And six students wanted to learn Latin. ...

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However, using only the Grammar-Translation Method for teaching a spoken language is not effective any more but it could be used henceforward in the teaching of the classical languages, Latin, Greek, Hebrew etc. as it was always used in that field. ... They learn paradigms such as verb conjugations, and they learn the native language equivalents of vocabulary words. ... If we compare the areas of language emphasised we can see that in the Grammar-Translation Method vocabulary and grammar are more important and reading and writing are the primary skills. ... In the Direct Method vocabulary is t...

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Children can be expected to go through some periods of mixing the two languages and borrowing vocabulary to express ideas, sometimes within the same sentence. This occurs because vocabulary may exist in one language but not in the other. ...

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Corpus planning refers to changes in structure, vocabulary, spelling, or even adoption of a new script. ... For example, even if a particular written form has been selected and approved by the speakers of certain hitherto oral languages, it still requires decisions with respect to (i) the choice of a writing system (e.g., should it be Devanagari-based, Latin-based or Arabic-based), which can be a matter of considerable political significance (as in the case of Konkani); (ii) an authoritative spelling (or "orthographic") system (e.g., "colour" or "color"...

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