The Italian

The origin of Italian

The Italian language is derived from the popular Latin, spoken by the people from the western provinces of the Roman Empire. The popular Latin predominated until the ninth century, then they began to speak Italian, a Romance language.
In the nineteenth century with the unification of smaller states in the peninsula whose common link is language,  Italian is approved as the official language, it can not be considered as "pure" latin popular  because it  has influence of the region Tuscany.

Joana Mota nº15

 

My conclusion

To make this work I confess that I had some trouble finding information.After all it was interesting to do this work because only then is that we realize that we live in a fully globalized world, and that going forward there will be no difference from one country to another without their geographical characteristics.



(Inês Correia  nº8)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2Sei7F61U8

These are some videos about Globalization.

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Inês Correia nº8

Globalization

Today more than learning a language is essentially the planet is so globalized that from now on will be hard to have a successful career or succeed in adapting to a society, so does the importance of learning another language is indisputable.Before understanding how countries have adapted to the globalization process, it is necessary to define globalization. There is no consensus on a narrow concept of what is globalization and its origin.

Inês Correia nº8

The german language

German is the 10th most spoken language in the world.It has 98 million speakers which corresponds to 1.7% of world population.It is the language spoken in Germany, Austria, Lichtenstein and Switzerland.

Onesandra Bernardo nº21

The French language

The French  is one of the major languages of the world, and one of the most important romanic languages, with a number of followers just below the Spanish and Portuguese. In 1999, French was the sixth most spoken language around the world, used by about 110 million people as their mother tongue and 210 million if we include those who speak a second language.

The French is the first language of main countries:

-France

-Bélgic

-Luxembourg

-Switzerland

Inês Correia nº8

The 10 most spoken languages in the world

My job will be on the 10 most spoken languages in the world, I speak on
Specific Mandarin and Hindi. After making one last post will be a conclusion
and will work on what I think of both languages and how
development work.

According to the last edition of "The Ethnologue: languages of the
world ", the number of languages spoken in the world is 6912. Here are ten
most spoken first languages in the world:

1. Mandarin - 1051 million - China, Malaysia and Taiwan

2. Hindi - 565 million - India, north and central regions.

3. English - 545 million - U.S., UK, parts of Oceania.

4. Spanish - 450 million - Spain and the Americas.

5. Arabic - 246 million - the Middle East, Arabia, North Africa.

6. Portuguese - 218 million - Brazil, Portugal, Angola.

7. Bengali - 171 million - Bangladesh, northeast India.

8. Russian - 145 million - Russia and Central Asia.

9. French - 130 million - France, Canada, West and Central Africa.

10. Japanese - 127 million – Japan

Joana Guimarães nº12