Whether you've already dabbled in Chinese yourself or are thinking about it, the short clip makes for an interesting watch for anyone looking to expand their linguistic horizons.
For millennia, living and breathing translators or interpreters have been the embodiment of unparalleled linguistic skills, specialised training, professional conduct and a passion for their work.
" Yuval Noah Harari, a history professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, told the paper: 'The new linguistic skills that modern humans acquired about 70 millennia ago enabled them to gossip for hours on end.
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The casual alteration of idioms risks nothing less than "cultural and linguistic chaos", it warns.
The analysis, which used the World Atlas of Language Structure as the main resource, relies on the theory that older civilisations have picked up more linguistic diversity as they age – from genes to language.
International Mother Language Day is a moment to recognize their importance and to mobilise for multilingualism and linguistic diversity.