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Sarah Jones delves into the lives of the essential workers

Trapped in alcohol's addictive grip

His vision connects worlds

but soon enough

Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages BN_Top_100 confidanteEnglish is the world language, except that most of the world doesnt speak itonly one in five people does. Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the worlds 7. 4 billion people in their mother tongues, you would need to know no fewer than twenty languages. He sets out to explore these top twenty world languages, which range from the familiar (French, Spanish) to the surprising (Malay, Javanese, Bengali). Babel whisks the reader on a