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  • How many British people make a new year's resolution to learn a new language?
    1 in 5
  • What does it mean to be fluent in a language?
    to speak well, without difficulty
  • What is an inflection?
    how a word is changed according to their meaning in a sentence
  • What languages does Neil speak?
    Spanish, Japanese, Czech
  • What is a lemma?
    base form of a word
  • What do we call our first language with another word?
    mother tongue
  • Why should we learn another language according to the program?
    1., to be able to communicate with other nationalities, 2., boost brain power
  • When learning a new language, what should you focus on according to Professor Stuart Webb?
    high frequency words
  • What does a study with monolingual and bilingual people suggest?
    speaking another language helps slow the brain's decline with age.
  • What does the word "to master" mean?
    to learn well
  • What are Neils advices for learning a new language?
    practise, practise, practise and don't be afraid of making mistakes
  • What's Rob's aim for this year?
    to master Spanish
  • How many languages are there in the world?
    7000