 In modern times, however, English has become a prolific source of international words, "radiating" them to such varied languages as Japanese, Arabic, Hindi, and Urdu, as well as to most Romance, Germanic, and Slavic languages.Initially, this view of an Anglo-Romance productive sphere permitted the researchers of IALA to greatly simplify the derivation of the international vocabulary.They could omit research into the receptive sphere, because all of the words that the languages of this sphere held in common were taken from the productive sphere.