what is lingua franca?
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Originally, "Lingua Franca" was the language of the sailors in the Mediterranean, who mixed Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Greek, Arabic and Turkish in their speech, so it was more-or-less understandable to people from all those countries.\n\nNow, it's any language or argot formed by words and structures from several different languages, so that the speakers of the original languages can more or less understand what is being said.\n\nEsperanto could be thought of as a Lingua Franca of European languages.
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thousands...english, french, spanish, portuguese and italian use many greek words and  they are common in all these languages like biology, techology, armonia, music, theater, diagnosis, xenophobia, mania, psychology..there are slight differences for example biology is biologia is spanish but its actually the same thing.
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lingo, check the websie lingo worldlingo.com
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paranguaricutirimicuaro:\n\nits an exercise practice on how to speak Spanish.
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Chinese - san fransisco
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The previous answer defined it wrong and then gave examples that were almost right.\n\nLingua franca is two words, it's true, and it does refer to the French language, but that's not what it means.\n\nA lingua franca is a language that people use to communicate between them, and neither of them is a native speaker of that language.  For example, nowadays people in many countries learn English as a foreign language, like in Japan and Germany, for example.  If a Japanese person went to Germany, he/she might be able to communicate with the locals in English, even though it's not a native language for either person.  In that case, English would be the lingua franca in the situation.\n\nThe reason it refers to French is that French was traditionally used in this way as the language of diplomacy.
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which language is it...
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English - Mother Tongue\nPortuguese - Second language (fluent - taught myself)\nSpanish - Third language (semi fluent - taught myself)\n\nItalian - Fourth Language (I'm strong in reading, although writing, listening and speaking need help - 6 month class and self study) \n\nI don't see myself learning any more than this, although I know some basics of French, Catalan and Russian in decending order.\n\nPortuguese will always be my favorite though and will always be the sweetest sounding.
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Ah, franch....what a lovely language.
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Fédération Internationale de Football Association which means the International Federation of Football Associations.\n\nFIFA has 3 main languages, Spanish, French and English.
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what language is this?
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Mandarin and English . approximately 16% of the world population.
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1 Language\n such as"film" and "movie" and "soccer" and "football"
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You could try 'Portuguese in 10 minutes a day' which is available in major bookstores in the language section. Its $15-20 and will start you off with a good vocab and basic understanding of the language. \n\nMy personal favorite is the Living Languages series, as I find it the most comprehensive and well layed out. That can be found at major bookstores too as well as amazon.com.
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Cher Monsieur,\nVous semblez considérer que l'anglais peut constituer une langue impérialiste et mondiale.\nIl me faut m'élever contre pareille conception.\nJe m'efforce, lorsque je me déplace dans un pays, de m'exprimer le mieux possible dans la langue des autochtones. Que donc ne choisissez-vous d'adopter la langue de Voltaire ?\nA bientôt, jeune freluquet coquinet !
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http://www.thelinguist.com
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If you are really interessed let's begin:\n-hello=buna(boona)\n-how are you?=ce mai faci?(che my fuch)\n-bye=la revedere(pa in a familiar language)