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Facts
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- The origin of Alphabet which one learns first, has its origin from the Greek words Alpha and Beta. The script can be traced back to being influenced from older Egyptian hieratic, a cursive script with relation to Egyptian Heiroglyphs.
- English is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world followed by Chinese and Spanish.
- The technology world is all about English. Almost 90 percent of all the data stored in computers comes in English.
- The official language of the sky is English! It doesn’t matter which country pilots are from,all of them speak in English on international flights.
- On an average one new word is added to the English Language repository every two hours, and almost 4,000 new words get added to the English dictionary in a year.
- It is found through research that individuals who have strong mother language skills can acquire a foreign language with much more ease.
- It is found that individuals who have continuous, and high quality exposure to multiple languages from a tender age have more neural connectivity in their brain areas related with language development skills, memory, attention and other executive brain functions.
- Such individuals also benefit in social, cognitive and emotional development and may have lesser chances of brain decay at old age.
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