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Multilingualism facts for kids

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A bilingual sign in Brussels, the capital of Belgium. In Brussels, both Dutch and French are official languages.

Multilingualism is when a person can speak more than one language. People who can speak two languages are called "bilingual", which is a type of multilingualism. Multilingualism is important today in jobs, because different countries buy things from each other more.

There are more multilingual people in the world than monolingual people.

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