Speaking in Different Languages

Speaking in Tongues
1. The first example of speaking in tongues in the New Testament is in Acts 2. The disciples were waiting in Jerusalem when they heard a sound like a wind, and saw fire that looked like tongues that came down of the apostles.
  The apostles were given the ability to speak in languages they had not learned.

2. The tongues spoken in the New Testament were not what is called ecstatic gibberish or the language of God. These tongues were recognized by the people as their native languages. A list of the languages understood is found in Acts 2:9-11. Notice, the apostles spoke and the people heard in their own language.

3. Acts 2 does not say the apostles were speaking in a language, it says they spoke in other languages. If this was the language of God, it would be one language not many languages.

I Corinthians 12:1
"Now about spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant."