1. AP Day 28

2. Language Starter
List your guesses as to the top 10 spoken languages worldwide.
(Are you doing it by native-born speakers, or the number of people who are fluent in the language?)

3. Problems with language numbers
Individual Language vs Dialect
First, it is difficult to define exactly what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect. For example, some languages including Chinese and Arabic are sometimes considered single languages and sometimes language families. Similarly, Hindi is sometimes considered a collective language including Mewari, Chhattisgarhi, Bhojpuri etc., but together with Urdu it also is often considered a single language Hindustani.
What is the criteria for fluency?
Second, there is no single criterion for how much knowledge is sufficient to be counted as a second- language speaker. For example, English has about 400 million native speakers but, depending on the criterion chosen, can be said to have as many as 2 billion speakers.

4. First Language Speakers
Mandarin Chinese
Spanish
English
Hindi
Arabic
Bengali
Portuguese
Russian
Lahnda/Punjabi (India/Pakistan)
Japanese

5. First and Second Language Speakers
Mandarin Chinese
English
Hindi/Urdu
Spanish
Arabic
Malay
Russian
Bengali
Portuguese
French

6. Reading Quiz
What language family is English apart of? What language branch is English apart of?
What is an institutional language?
What is an official language?
In the U.S. is English an institutional or an official language?
Explain your answer to question #4

7. Religion Presentations