When Iman was discovered by photographer Peter Beard in 1973 he claimed that he had found her in the jungle; in reality, the multilingual daughter of a Somali diplomat had been studying political science at Nairobi University.
Their exploration of the linguistic landscape served as an awareness-raising technique aimed at preparing them for the reality of multilingual schools.
This study is an explorative and descriptive study using semi-structured individual interviews and focus group interviews to understand the reality of interpretation practices in multilingual elderly healthcare from different healthcare professionals' perspective [ 30].
Many people are shocked to discover that there is no "official" language of the United States, even though in reality one needs to speak English, no matter how multilingual the populace actually is.
Scholar François Grosjean in Bilingual: Life and Reality, reminds us that many of our American Founding Fathers were multilingual, as was Jesus Christ (Aramaic, Hebrew and possibly Greek and Latin).
The monolingual mindset stands in sharp contrast to the lived reality of most the world, which throughout its history has been more multilingual than unilingual.
One of the peculiarities of film history is that what might seem to be the movie camera's most obvious power -- the capacity to record reality as it unfolds -- should require theories, manifestoes and a specialized, multilingual vocabulary.
They are all multilingual.
