Credit:<br />Source: The Guardian<br />www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/21/the-joys-and-benefits-of-bilingualism#comments<br />Recording application: Bandicam<br /><br />VOCABULARY:<br /> advanced industrialised democracies<br /> colonial legacy<br /> BE IN DECLINE/ ON THE DECLINE: becoming less powerful/weathy/ important<br /> THIS (TREND) TRANSLATES INTO...: this leads to<br /> MODAL VERBS "WOULD", "COULD" NOTICE: DESCRIBE WHAT STH PLAN TO DO IN A FORMAL SETTING<br /> BORNE (v) - BEAR: SUPPORTED/ HELD LIABLE BY<br /> ESPERANTO: an artificial language invented in 1887 as a means of international communication, based on the main European languages but with easy grammar and pronunciation (Oxford)<br /> total (v) between... and...<br /><br /> this amounts to...: if figures amount to a particular total, they equal that total when they are added together<br /><br /> on an unequal footing: in conditions where people have unequal chances<br /><br /> incur sth [unpleasant]: deal with/experience [sth bad]
