What is your language strategy?

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Languages

Part # 1: Mandarin Chinese.Part # 2: English.Part # 3: German.Part # 4: French.Part # 5: Italian.Part # 6: Spanish.Part # 7: How many languages are spoken in the world?Part # 8: What are some advantages of learning languages?

Part # 9: The language of math.Part # 10: The language of coding.Part # 11: Sign language.Part # 12: Body language.Part # 13: Languages of love.Part # 14: The language of music.

Part # 1

Mandarin Chinese

12 Chinese words / phrases

English Chinese pronounciation

Hello Nihao?

How are you? Nihao ma?

I am ok. Haixing

And you? Ni ne?

See you later. Dzeye jyen

I would like Wor yaoww....

Yes Shrr

No Boo-shrr

Thank you Sshyeah-sshyeah

Sorry Dway-boo-chee

My name is Wo xing....

Bon appetit Manman chi

Some sources of inspiration

http://www.chinahighlights.com/travelguide/phrasebook/http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/mandarin.phphttp://www.standardmandarin.com/chinese-phraseshttp://translate.google.com/#en/zh-CN/personhttp://youtu.be/qR72RnEwl0M

Part # 2

English

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/English-2817429

Part # 3

German

Places where German is a key language

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:DeutschsprachigeWelt.png

Part # 4

French

Places where French is a key language

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Map-Francophone_World.png

French is part of the Italic languages

Part # 5

Italian

Italian is the official language of Italy and parts of Switzerland.

Italian is also used by some people living in, for example, Malta, Libya, Somalia, Slovenia, Croatia, USA, UK, Argentina and Australia.

http://www.britishcouncil.org/sites/britishcouncil.uk2/files/languages-for-the-future-report_0.pdf

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Part # 6

Spanish

Places where Spanish is a key language

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Map-Hispanophone_World.png

Spanish is part of the Italic languages

Part # 7

How many languages are spoken in the world?

6,000 to 7,000 languages are spoken in the world.

http://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1810040/infographic-world-languageshttp://www.ted.com/talks/mark_pagel_how_language_transformed_humanity.html, minute 14.https://youtu.be/VQRjouwKDlU

Each dot = the geographic center of the world’s languages

http://www.ethnologue.org/country_index.asp

On the island of Papua New Guinea, a country with a population of about 6 million people, more than 800 different languages are used.

Sourceshttp://www.ted.com/talks/mark_pagel_how_language_transformed_humanity.html, minute 15.http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2013/01/10/168878237/jared-diamond-a-new-guinea-campfire-and-why-we-should-want-to-speak-five-languag

iesThe world’s 10 most

multilingual countries

http://www.ted.com/talks/patricia_ryan_ideas_in_all_languages_not_just_english.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakershttp://www.ethnologue.com/statistics/sizehttp://www.britishcouncil.org/sites/britishcouncil.uk2/files/languages-for-the-future-report_0.pdf

Top 10 languages. Numbers in millions.

Choosing a common language can dramatically improve how employees collaborate across borders - even though it also introduces new challenges.

The decision to adopt a common language must be balanced with the need to speak local languages and adapt to local cultures.

https://hbr.org/2014/09/whats-your-language-strategy/ar/1

Part # 8

What are some advantages of learning languages?

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/13/opinion/sunday/the-superior-social-skills-of-bilinguals.html?_r=0

Children, who learn to speak more languages, can

be better at communication than children

who speak only 1 language. Being exposed to more languages improves social abilities.

A study showed that bilingual children were better at guessing what people were thinking, perhaps because they are constantly monitoring who in their world spoke what language.

http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21696489-advantages-working-your-own-language-are-obvious-those-working-foreign

Bilingual people are more efficient at higher-level brain functions such as

ignoring irrelevant information.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/study-shows-that-people-who-speak-two-languages-have-more-efficient-brains/2014/11/18/e027a27e-6a7c-11e4-9fb4-a622dae742a2_story.html

http://www.edudemic.com/learn-another-language-bilingual/

Bilingual children adjust to environmental changes better.

Because words in a second language, when learned later in life, do not carry the same emotional impact as the words of one's

native tongue, individuals made more rational decisions when using their

second language.

http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/how-knowing-a-foreign-language-results-in-more-rational-decisions

If you speak 2 languages, dementia is less likely to set in.

https://youtu.be/VQRjouwKDlU minute 6.

Language training is an important investment in employees. However, to reach cultural fluency, more work is needed.

Language fluency does not equal cultural fluency.

https://hbr.org/2014/09/whats-your-language-strategy/ar/1

Further inspiration

https://www.duolingo.com/http://www.pnas.org/content/112/5/1334.full

Part # 9

The language of math

http://www.ted.com/talks/jay_walker_on_the_world_s_english_mania.html

http://www.frankcalberg.com/matheducation

Part # 10

The language of coding

Why shouldn’t people understand how to “speak” JavaScript?

Chamath Palihapitiya

http://www.mckinsey.com/Insights/High_Tech_Telecoms_Internet/Managing_disruptive_technology_A_conversation_with_investor_Chamath_Palihapitiya

Sources of inspiration

https://www.codeschool.com/https://github.com/

Part # 11

Sign language

http://signsrestaurant.ca/?page_id=16

Stop sign - Spanish

http://www.imagebase.net/Concept/object12-1365200375

Skype emoticons

http://www.skype.com/

http://www.thenounproject.com/

Research shows that when we look at a smiling emoticon on the Internet, the same parts of the brain are activated as when we look at a real human face.

http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2015/01/25/7-reasons-use-emoticons-social-media-according-sciencehttp://www.fastcodesign.com/3033794/evidence/the-neuroscience-of-emoticons

Further inspiration

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/The-brain-1500203

Part # 12

Body language

Google Images search on the word ”laughter” on March 16th, 2016.http://goo.gl/P35eCE

http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2011/10/body-language-improve-patient-encounter.html

When we show our palms when talking, it means we are being honest and telling the truth.

https://hbr.org/2011/04/boost-power-through-body-langu.html

Sourceshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Mehrabianhttp://blog.doubleslash.de/richtige-kommunikation-im-softwareprojekt/

Use of words 7% impact

Body language55% impact

Voice38% impact

While Westerners see direct eye contact as indicating honesty, it may be interpreted as threatening in East Asia.

http://repository.cmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1149&context=tepper

Research shows that a firm handshake is positively related to being extrovert.

https://hbr.org/2014/06/to-negotiate-effectively-first-shake-hands/

Further inspiration

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Introvert-and-extrovert-2037536

Part # 13

Languages of love

Further inspiration

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Love-2024572

Part # 14

The language of music

Further inspiration

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/The-power-of-music-1380375

What is your language strategy?

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