"These seven maps and charts, visualized by The Washington Post, will help you understand how diverse other parts of the world are in terms of languages."
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LingoPass! is a unique style of language exchange. To join the Language Exchange Group, add a discussion in any language. In return, you can attend all discussions in all languages for one week. Practice speaking in our audio/visual chat room. 
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Lexipedia is an online visual semantic network. Type in a word and an animated word web will appear, letting you know if the word is a noun, verb, adverb, or adjective as well as providing synonyms and antonyms (plus fuzznyms!). Via Beth Dichter, Smaragda Papadopoulou
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The world is extremely diverse in its spread of native languages. Yet only a handful are commonly spoken by the majority of the world, about 2/3. Over half of the world's languages are expected to go extinct because of the extreme diversity and the minimal distribution which means that in some places almost every person speaks a completely different language and many are dying as their last speakers do not pass it on to their children.
This article is relates to cultural patterns and processes through the geographic spread of languages around the globe and the increasing acculturation that causes the loss of many of these languages in our increasingly globalized world.
Its interesting to see just how many people speak the languages we speak everyday, and to see just how many people DONT speak it.
It is amazing to see all main languages in perspective to the world. Mandarine holding the top spot with 1.39 Billion surprises me but at the same time doesn't. There are 1.3 billion people living there in the first place.