2. Use the verb to be in the necessary form:
1. In my opinion, learning foreign languages ... extremely beneficial.
2. 90% of national languages ... used by less than 100,000 people.
3. Believe it or not English spelling ... at one time virtually phonetic: even the 'K' in 'know'…. pronounced
4. 2,200 of the world's languages can ... found in Asia, while Europe has a mere
260
5. English ... very useful when you travel abroad.
6. It... estimated that up to 7,000 different languages ... spoken around the world.
7. The first artificial languages ... invented by scholars for communication among philosophers.
8. From 43 BC to about AD 410 the areas which ... now England and Wales .. part of the Roman Empire, and Latin ... the language of government
