Credit:
Source: The Guardian
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/21/the-joys-and-benefits-of-bilingualism#comments
Recording application: Bandicam
VOCABULARY:
advanced industrialised democracies
colonial legacy
BE IN DECLINE/ ON THE DECLINE: becoming less powerful/weathy/ important
THIS (TREND) TRANSLATES INTO...: this leads to
MODAL VERBS "WOULD", "COULD" NOTICE: DESCRIBE WHAT STH PLAN TO DO IN A FORMAL SETTING
BORNE (v) - BEAR: SUPPORTED/ HELD LIABLE BY
ESPERANTO: an artificial language invented in 1887 as a means of international communication, based on the main European languages but with easy grammar and pronunciation (Oxford)
total (v) between... and...
this amounts to...: if figures amount to a particular total, they equal that total when they are added together
on an unequal footing: in conditions where people have unequal chances
incur sth [unpleasant]: deal with/experience [sth bad]
