Language help is out there

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The BBC web site contains many resources for learning so many languages. This site below is very intriguing. Where else can you quickly see essential phrases in 36 languages? They have extensive information for the core languages. I have improved my Spanish and Chinese by using the BBC web site. This site also has wonderful pictures for each geographical location. Please take a look:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/other/quickfix/



Here are a couple of interesting language facts from the site. I never knew Urdu was such a widely used language with almost a half billion speakers, including a million in the UK.

Why learn Urdu?

It is a living language spoken by 490 million people around the world.

The Urdu community in the UK numbers about one million speakers.

It is not just a practical language spoken on a daily basis, but one that produced great scholarships and poetry.

Learning Urdu will also help you recognise words in Arabic and Persian since many words are common in all three languages.

People will respect the fact that you make an effort to speak to them in their language, whether abroad or in the UK.