| Question 1: In recent years, linguistic research has focused attention on the use of widely known world languages such as English as ________, or the shared common language of professional and commercial communities. | |||
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| Question 2: Typical diglossic areas are those areas in ________ where a regional language is used in informal, usually oral, contexts, while the state language is used in more formal situations. | |||
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| Question 3: Receptive bilingualism is not the same as ________, which is the case of a native Spanish speaker who is able to understand Portuguese, or vice versa, due to the high lexical and grammatical similarities between Spanish and Portuguese [2]. | |||
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| Question 4: ________ (with Frisian and German or Dutch) and Lusatia (with Sorbian and German) are well-known examples. | |||
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| Question 5: Ambilingual tendencies can be found in small states with multiple heritages like Luxembourg, which has a combined Franco-Germanic heritage, or Singapore, which fuses the cultures of Malaysia, ________, and India. | |||
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| Question 6: Widespread multilingualism is one form of ________. | |||
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| Question 7: Rowan Williams— Brought up bilingually in English and Welsh, also reads or speaks Spanish, French, German, Russian, ________, Syriac, Latin and both Ancient and Modern Greek. | |||
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| Question 8: Another example is the former state of ________, where two languages (Czech and Slovak) were in common use. | |||
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| Question 9: ________ - knew 8 languages and invented his own, Vendergood, by the time he was eight. | |||
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| Question 10: The United States, however, in spite of its proximity to francophone ________ and hispanophone Mexico, is the only technologically advanced country that does not require the study of a foreign language in its schools. | |||
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