Unit 9: Language

1. to talk about other people's private lives
7. able to speak a language easily and well without many pauses
9. If a skill you had is _______, it is not as good as it was because you have not practiced it.
10. able to use more than two languages for communication
11. to learn something informally
13. a language that is geographically widespread and makes it possible for members of different language communities to communicate
14. a language that is not an official language of, nor typically spoken in, a specific country.

2. To start a conversation
3. a language that a person can speak that is not the first language they learned naturally as a child
4. the first language that you learn when you are a baby, rather than a language learned at school or as an adult
5. a language spoken by a minority of the population of a territory
6. to send someone a text message by phone
8. to learn a new skill or language by practicing it rather than being taught it
12. to talk to someone in a friendly informal way