multilingualism
Americannoun
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the state or condition of being multilingual.
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a policy or approach that promotes the use of multiple languages.
Example Sentences
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In the human experience, multilingualism is not noise, it is the signal.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2023
“As an institute, we believe in multilingualism, and the fact that the theater promotes its Hispanic heritage and its language is something that should be celebrated by all ethnic groups, and promoted as an example.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2022
This approach gives younger students opportunities to build fluency and reap the add-on benefits of multilingualism even as they learn math, science and other subjects.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2022
For starters, multilingualism is not a threat to English—just about everybody who has migrated here knows they will be better off learning English.
From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2021
Because the salient characteristics of the web are the multiplicity of site generators and the cheapness of message generation, as the web matures it will in fact promote multilingualism.
From The Internet and Languages [around the year 2000] by Marie Lebert
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