Languages...

Languages....

As the world waits for fate of a plane who has disappeared from the screens and radar flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing  carrying passengers from all nationalities, languages ....I found the language article tucked into the bylines of the news, but found it was an advertisement....

Those people aboard the plane spoke a variety of languages, they were probably talking to one another and pieces of conversations could be heard all over the plane, here and here, from English to mandarin, to various European tongues as well...and a variety of Asian.....

Praying for their families, we can all speak and God will hear and know anything that is said by anyone in the world...since he knows our hearts and minds...

Languages can pull people together and tear them apart...but the language of the heart is common to all....Watching the movie/documentary about mothers and children from four cultures..really emphasizes the commonality we have...with our children...the love, the care...the heart....

Thank YOU for the gift of speech, languages...that You care enough for the translations of Your word to all nations and tongues....for the people you have sent out to translate YOur word to the heart tongue of so many people...

Isaiah 66:18
“And I, because of what they have planned and done, am about to come and gather the people of all nations and languages, and they will come and see my glory.

Acts 2

Revelation 7:9
[ The Great Multitude in White Robes ] After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands.





"Who was the only American president to learn English as a second language? What foreign language is the most popular among U.S. presidents? What commander-in-chief spoke Mandarin Chinese?

Less than half of the presidents were proficient in speaking or writing a language other than English.

Only one president, Martin Van Buren (in office 1837-1841), did not speak English as his first language. Growing up in the Dutch community of Kinderhook, New York, he spoke Dutch as a child and learned English as a second language while attending the local school house.

Most presidents who served in the 18th and 19th centuries studied Latin, as part the tradition of classical education that was prevalent at the time in American schools.

The second president, John Adams, taught Greek and Latin at a school in Worcester, Massachusetts, at the beginning of his career. In a letter he sent to Thomas Jefferson while serving as president, Adams lamented that few Americans learn these languages.
James Garfield (in office March-September 1881) also taught Greek and Latin, at what is now Hiram College in Ohio.

One of the most prominent intellectuals of his time, Thomas Jefferson was known among other things for his language skills. He claimed to read and write five languages in addition to English—Greek, Latin, French, Italian, and Spanish—but also had books and dictionaries in languages like Arabic, Gaelic, and Welsh.

James Madison, the fourth president of the United States (1809-1817), was well-versed in Hebrew, having studied the language at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University).

French was often heard in the Monroe White House (1817-1825). James Monroe had studied the language in his youth and, along with his wife, became fluent while serving in Paris from 1794 to 1796 as U.S. minister to France.

Of all the presidents, John Quincy Adams (in office 1825-1829) may hold the record for language learning. As a child, he traveled with his father on diplomatic assignments all over the world, allowing him to study French and Dutch. When Adams was just 14 years old, he accompanied a diplomatic mission to Russia as a French translator. He also read the Latin and Greek classics in their original languages, like many of his contemporaries, dedicated himself to learning German while serving as the U.S. ambassador to Prussia, and later learned Italian.

Herbert Hoover, who served as president from 1929 to 1933, learned Mandarin Chinese while working as a mining engineer in China. He and his wife Lou—whose Chinese names were Hoo-Yah and Hoo-Lou, respectively—even spoke the language occasionally during their White House years, when they didn’t want people around them to understand.
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