If you want a challenge, a good bet is to pick a tiny language from halfway around the world.
George Mason, a public university in Fairfax, Va., arrived in the gulf in 2005 with a tiny language program intended to help students achieve college-level English skills and meet the university's admission standards for the degree programs that were beginning the next year.
I realize that even through our tiny language barriers, I would be very, very lonely without Charlotte in this privileged student life.
He spent years learning tiny languages in forbidding jungle villages, experiences he recounted in his 2008 memoir, "Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes".
Lyrics are a bit of an afterthought — yet Mark Speer's lead guitar has such a distinct, seizing voice that during a sold-out show at Rough Trade, in Brooklyn, just weeks after the album's release, fans stirred in excitement at the first few licks of each number, creating their own tiny languages to sing along to songs with no words.
For many tiny, endangered languages, digital technology has become a lifeline.
America, Russia, Brazil, China and Mexico have over 100 languages each, but score relatively low on the diversity index, because English, Russian, Portuguese, Chinese and Spanish have grown to the point where they threaten to destroy the many tiny native languages.
Although she lost out to Kate Winslet, and early predictions of an Oscar nod never came to pass, it was a remarkable achievement for a "tiny" French-language film to such make an impact in America.
Looking back to 1969 when he bought a tiny English-language paper in Quebec, Mr. Black, now 55, said, "I started in this business 30 years ago with an investment of $500".
His 21st birthday was spent in a Peruvian jail because of visa problems - the kind of bureaucracy he always took in his stride in his journalistic career, which began for him in Lima, on a tiny English-language paper, the Peruvian Times.
The mainstream presence of Pinterest, Instagram, Snapchat, emoji, and GIFS is a sign that the visual revolutionaries have won: online, we all communicate visually, piecing together sentences from tiny-icon languages.
