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Example sentences for: multilingualism

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The European Union may value multilingualism as an economic asset, but Americans seem to think monolingualism is the way to go.
Yet even that picture is not so clear: If Anglo parents in New York are choosing to have their very young children begin the study of Spanish, as the article in today's New York Times indicates, does this mean, as the Times suggests, that they have come to value multilingualism, or does it mean they are just being practical?
Babel myth notwithstanding, it's quite possible that multilingualism has always been part of the human condition.
In the early part of the 20 th century, psychologists argued that multilingualism was actually a cause of mental retardation.
Many tongues are spoken here, but multilingualism serves mainly to delineate constituent groups, not to facilitate communication.