We do not really know how languages began.0:01
Some believe that languages began when prehistoric people tried to imitate birds and animals.0:05
Some think that the first words were the natural sounds that people made when they felt happy or were in shock.0:11
What we know about the history of languages is that many of them come from one ancient language.0:19
Linguists say that this and all the languages that come from it are a family of languages.0:26
English and Russian belong to the Indo European family of languages.0:32
French, Italian, German, Norwegian also belong to it.0:38
How many words must a language have?0:44
For example, there are more than 450,000 words in Webster's New International Dictionary.0:46
Nobody knows all of them, but most people are able to understand about 35,000 and use from 10,000 to 12,000.0:54
If you hear or read a new word and want to know what it means, you try to find this word in a dictionary.1:04
Modern dictionaries are very different from old ones.1:11
Most of them give words alphabetically with the words.1:15
They give information about how they sound and what meanings they have.1:20
A dictionary may also give you information about how to use the word grammatically and gives examples.1:25
There are monolingual, bilingual and multilingual dictionaries.1:31
They give information about words in 1, mono, 2 bi, or more than two multi languages.1:37
There are also different kinds of online dictionaries which you may download from the Internet.1:45
They can be really very useful.1:51
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