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What is Language? What is Language Lab?

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WHAT IS LANGUAGE ? Language is a system of communication by written or spoken words, which is used by the people of a particular country or area. It is used for communication by word of mouth. The mental faculty or power of vocal communication. The cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication. What is ‘Language Laboratory’? A ‘Language Laboratory’ is a room in a school or college that contains special equipment to help students learn foreign languages by listening to tapes or CDs, watching videos, recording themselves, etc. Types of ‘Language Laboratory’? Audio System Language Lab. Audio Active System Language Lab. Audio Active Comparative System Language Lab. Audio Active Comparative with Controls Language Lab. Audio-Visual Multi-Media Language Lab. Computerised Langauge Lab. Logograms & Alphabets The oldest forms of writing used pictures or symbols for whole words. These are called Logograms. The major systems are Hieroglyphs (picture wri

250,00,00,000 Words in English Language!

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250,00,00,000 Words in English Language! The Oxford English Corpus is the largest text corpus of English language containing over two billion words . (Recently the number reached 2.5 billion mark!) The Bank of English is the name of the cobuild corpus (Collins Birmingham University International Language Database ) which has 525 million words. The British National Corpus is a 100 million word text corpus of written and spoken English. The Brigham Young University Corpus of American English contains 360+ million words.