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Question 1 of 6What is the essay's central argument? Question 2 of 6What does the essay say the mother tongue is often reserved for? Question 3 of 6What does the author imply by saying the global village has "one official language"? Question 4 of 6What "lesson nobody states outright" does the child learn? Question 5 of 6What does describing a language as "celebrated but not lived in" suggest? Question 6 of 6What does the muscle comparison at the end imply? Vocabularyالْعَوْلَمَةglobalization
يُتْقِنُmasters
الْمَرْمُوقَةprestigious
إِزَاحَةdisplacement
تَحْتَكِرُmonopolizes
مَهِيبdignified, imposing
حَمِيمintimate
صَرَاحَةًexplicitly
الْإِهْمَالneglect
تُبَرْمَجُare programmed
الِانْغِلَاقclosing oneself off
تَضْمُرُwithers, atrophies