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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Gaston Dorren
First published in Great Britain in 2014 by Profile Books.
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From the celebrated author of Lingo, a whistle-stop tour of the world’s twenty most-spoken languages, exploring history, geography, linguistics, and culture–showing how the language we speak reflects our view of…
A quirky language-lovers tour of the twenty most-spoken languages in the world - what puts them a cut above the other six thousand?
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Why the Spanish speak so fast, the Dutch are gender-benders and it’s hard to add up in Breton.