Saturday, April 28, 2007

Global languages: don't leave home without one

If you were going to come up with a list of global languages the knowledge of which would allow you to have a degree of ability to negotiate most cities in the world, which languages would they be?

To clarify: I'm talking of languages that would be included where a city has tourist or visitor information listed in a variety of versions (signs and literature), that the ability of getting a translator would be possible, that may even have a significant number of people within cities throughout the world speaking that language.

I realize that there will be a wide range of differences in how successful each of these languaes would be....but the list itself would be interesting.>

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