If it is any comfort, languages won't truly be dead.

But learning two languages comes at a cost.

The Alexander legend was the theme of poetry in all European languages; six or seven German poets dealt with the subject, and it may be read in French, English, Spanish, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, Flemish and Bohemian.

This little boy could speak two or three languages before he lost his hearing through sickness, and he is now only about five years old.

The faithful talking with tongues were taken by bystanders for drunken men, but intoxicated men do not talk in languages of which they are normally ignorant.2 Paul on the whole discouraged glossolaly.