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Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages
By Dorren, Gaston
- ISBN
- 9780802128799 9780802146724
- Publisher
- Grove
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Reviewed on October 15, 2018 | Social Sciences
A more apt title for this offering might be Babble, as this smorgasbord of 20 widely spoken languages is largely a stew of Dorren's (Lingo: Around Europe in Sixty Languages) impressions and opinions that occasionally serves up delicious bloopers—e.g., nouns are not "conjugated"; verbs are conjugated, nouns are declined. Of the languages selected are those well known (in the West) s...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
