This ebook will explain the basics of languages, relate and teach you how best to learn other languages and speak them in short term.
[Language is] a systematic means of communicating ideas or feelings by the use of
conventionalized signs, sounds, gestures, or marks having understood meanings.
Merriam-Webster
The purposes of language:
1. Assistance (!) in conveying ideas or feelings
2. Making you accepted in a group (society, nation etc.)
Conveying (getting and receiving) ideas (information, orders, information requests) and
feelings (physical, emotional or other) should be done in a way, acceptable between two
or more persons. One single person generally does not need a language.
Language and Communication
Communication using a language is subdivided into 4 parts:
Speaking
Listening
Writing
Reading