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The Government’s recognised centre of expertise on languages. Their mission is to promote a greater capability in languages amongst all sectors of the UK population. CILT is also the standards-setting body for languages, interpreting and translation and the recognised expert body for language and cultural skills for the UK-wide Skills for Business Network.

Refugee Week believe that if everyone does at least one of their simple actions, a big difference could be made to change to the way refugees are perceived in the UK.

The social network for lanuage exchange. This great site helps you meet up with someone near you to practice your foreign language skills with a native speaker!

• Top 10 most spoken languages (with number of speakers) are: 10. French (129 million) 9. Malay Indonesian (159 million). 8. Portuguese (191 million) 7. Bengali (211 million). 6. Arabic -(246 million). 5. Russian (277 million). 4. Spanish (392 million). 3. Hindustani (497 million). 2. English ( 508 million). 1. Mandarin (1 billion+).
• 14.3% of all primary school children have a first language known to or believed to be a language other than English.
• 10.6% of all secondary school children have a first language known to or believed to be a language other than English.
• There are more than 2,700 languages in the world. In addition, there are more than 7,000 dialects. A dialect is a regional variety of a language that has a different pronunciation, vocabulary, or meaning.
• The most difficult language to learn is Basque, which is spoken in northwestern Spain and southwestern France. It is not related to any other language in the world. It has an extremely complicated word structure and vocabulary.
• More than 1,000 different languages are spoken on the continent of Africa.
• Many languages in Africa include a "click" sound that is pronounced at the same time as other sounds. You must learn these languages in childhood to do it properly.
• There are over 583 different languages and dialects spoken in Indonesia alone, including English and Dutch.
• The Cambodian alphabet is the world's largest alphabet, with 74 letters. The world's shortest alphabet, used in the Solomon Islands, has only 11.
• English, the second most spoken language in the world, has more words than any other language. But English speakers generally use only about 1% of the language.
• Goodbye came from God bye which came from God be with you. So long came from the Arabic word salaam and the Hebrew word shalom.
• Around 200 artificial languages have been created since the 17th century. The first were invented by scholars for communication among philosophers. Later ones were developed by less scholarly men for trade, commerce and international communication. They include 'Interlingua' (a mixture of Latin and Romance with Chinese-like sentence structure), 'Ido', 'Tutonish' (a simplified blend of Anglo-Saxon English and German) and the more commonly-known 'Esperanto', invented by Ludwig Zamenhof, a Jewish ophthalmologist from Poland, in 1887.
• Esperanto is a spoken and written blend of Latin, English, German and Romance elements and literally means "one who hopes". Today, Esperanto is widely spoken by approximately 2 million people across the world.
• Dutch is said to be the easiest language for native English speakers to pick up, while research shows that for those native English speakers who already know another language, the five most difficult languages to get your head around are Arabic, Cantonese, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
• One quarter of the world’s languages are spoken by fewer than 1,000 people and if these are not passed down to the next generation, they will be gone forever.
• Around 75% of the world's population don’t speak a word of English and a grasp of a different language improves your abilities to use your first language and explore other cultures more successfully.
• Many scientists also believe that knowledge of another language can boost your brainpower. A study of monolingual and bilingual speakers suggests speaking two languages can help slow down the brain's decline with age. And to quote Nelson Mandela, "If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."