1. In Praise of Minimal Languages.- Part I. Finding the Best Words.- 2. Balancing the Local with the Universal: Minimal English and Agricultural Training in the Pacific.- 3. The Hunt for the Simplest Possible Vocabulary: Minimal Finnish Meets Easy Finnish.- 4. Minimal English and Revitalization Education: Assisting Linguists to Explain Grammar in Simple, Everyday Words.- Part II. Language Learning and Intercultural Education.- 5. Using Minimal English (Minimal Spanish, etc.) for Non-Circular Learners' Dictionaries.- 6. Standard Translatable English: A Minimal English for Teaching and Learning Invisible Culture in Language Classrooms.- 7. From Cultural to Pedagogical Scripts: Speaking Out in English, French and Russian.- 8. Using Minimal Language to Help Foreign Learners Understand Korean Honorifics.- Part III. Health.- Chapter 9. Adapting the Welch Emotional Connection Screen (WECS) into Minimal English and Seven Other Minimal Languages.- 10. Ways of Thinking and Talking About Cancer.-11. Minimal English for Health: Reader Accessibility in Public Health Communication About COVID-19 in Australia (With Contrastive Reference to Denmark).- 12. Seven Essential Messages for the Time of the Coronavirus.