{"id":9291,"date":"2013-10-22T14:51:51","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T14:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=9291"},"modified":"2013-10-22T14:51:51","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T14:51:51","slug":"1000-words-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=9291","title":{"rendered":"1,000 Words Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article I found today in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/the-1000-words-challenge-britons-should-learn-1000-words-of-a-new-language-to-compete-in-jobs-market-8838568.html\">The Independent<\/a>, &#8220;Everyone in Britain should learn 1,000 words of another language, a new campaign is urging, amid concerns that people lose out on jobs abroad because of poor language skills.&#8221; The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speaktothefuture.org\/1000-words-challenge\/\">1,000 Words Challenge<\/a> is apparently designed to do something about the UK&#8217;s reputation for being poor at foreign languages, and to try to ensure that British tourists &#8220;appear less arrogant and better able to put forward our ideas on the international stage&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently if you learn 1,000 words in a foreign language you will be able to conduct a basic conversation. There is no mention, I can find, of how you go about learning the words, or how just learning that many words will enable you to speak a language &#8211; what about grammar? If it was 1,000, or however many, phrases, then you could have a conversation, but words on their own would not be enough. Or maybe they would, if you used them creatively. What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article I found today in The Independent, &#8220;Everyone in Britain should learn 1,000 words of another language, a new campaign is urging, amid concerns that people lose out on jobs abroad because of poor language skills.&#8221; The 1,000 Words Challenge is apparently designed to do something about the UK&#8217;s reputation for being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}