How did people first figure out other languages? Like did they learn theirs, and then have someone else teach them the way they would teach their children?
How did people first figure out what words in foreign languages mean?
What were the origins of the first languages and what were these languages? What were the origins of languages? What was the first language spoken in the world? How did English language originate? How did the English language originate? What is the first language spoken by humans? How do native English speakers know how to pronounce the words they encounter for the first time in written form? If I go through an intro linguistics class, am I going to know how the structure of the English works and the patterns in words so that I can know what a really foreign looking word means and I can make up my own words with the patterns and say what I want to say more clearly but the words are real words? How did the word "accent" originate? What was the first written language? What does "spoken language" mean? What preceded language? How do linguists know what languages were spoken thousands of years ago, and what they sounded like? How do linguists figure out pronunciations in ancient writing? What does the term "First Nations" mean? How did English become the de facto international language? How the languages are formed? How the new word is created? Why did the language varries from countries to others? What is language? How were languages invented? Loanwords: What Chinese words were borrowed from Japan? What was the first word? What is India's first language? What defines a language? How are words formed in any language? What is the state-of-the-art of natural language understanding? Is English India's first language? What's the difference between a second and a foreign language? What is the difference between a foreign language and a second language? Did the Japanese know Navajo code talkers were used in WWII but were unable to crack the language or did they have no clue what language it was?