Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages

by Gaston Dorren

Book Overview

English is the world language, except that most of the world doesn't speak it--only one in five people does. Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world's 7.4 billion people in their mother tongues, you would need to know no fewer than twenty languages. He sets out to explore these top twenty world languages, which range from the familiar (French, Spanish) to the surprising (Malay, Javanese, Bengali). Babel whisks the reader...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802147801
• ISBN13: 9780802147806
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.3" x 8.3"