Sentences with phrase «mother tongue at»

What's At Stake: The authority of an employer to prohibit minority staff from speaking to one another in their mother tongue at the workplace, since immigrant and racialized people are often forbidden to speak their mother tongue at work and in schools, much like Aboriginal children in residential schools in the previous century.

Danh Vō's 2013 exhibition Mother Tongue at Marian Goodman in New York used artefacts from the estate of Robert McNamara, former US Secretary of Defence during the Vietnam War, and therefore kept close to the artist's own biography.

Mother tongue at the Rockbund Museum, Shanghai, and the Whitney Biennial, New York; and Mondialité at the Villa Empain, Brussels.

Occasionally, these characters throw a few well - spoken words of their mother tongue at each other, but these little touches of authenticity only underline the improbability of their other conversations.

I'm off to Edinburgh, like, now, to perform my solo show Mother Tongue at the Fringe Fest - the biggest arts festival on the planet.

Not exact matches

The ideal future would be one in which everybody could converse in at least two languages — a mother tongue sustaining their own cultural heritage, and a lingua franca providing access to other people and cultures around the globe.

But when you don't prepare for Mother Nature's hot wet tongue lapping at the back of your neck in a way only Asia can do it throws you for a loop.

There's at least one cast member I won't have to miss, because the fantastically talented DJ Mendel is going to be directing my solo show, Mother Tongue, on February 6 and 7 at The Brick in Williamsburg.

I'm performing my solo show, Mother Tongue, at a venue called Summerhall, Edinburgh's newest and biggest arts venue.

All of this attention only adds further weight to the long - standing perception that Brits just aren't «good» at learning languages - a commonly held belief that is just not true - every one of us is an expert linguist - after all, we have all done pretty well at learning at least one language - our mother tongue.

I am doing a beginner's sewing course at the moment, though so hopefully I will try to look for other blogs in the future (especially in Spanish, my mother tongue).

At 25 my mother married a man who couldn't speak her mother tongue.

Be convinced that speaking in the mother tongue of your partner carries its own advantage, as he / she would feel comfortable and feel at home as from the day of childhood he / she has been reading, writing and speaking the language of mother tongue.

The praise was largely glowing for Janney's turn as Tonya Harding's mother, LaVona Golden, a harridan with a sharp tongue and, at times, a parakeet on her shoulder.

Jennifer is 17, a black - clad, metal - pierced, acid - tongued, death - obsessed, tattoo - inked, self - mutilating yet poetically inclined cactus of an outsider, at odds with her schoolmates, her self - delusively sunny mother (Carol Kane), her cipher of a stepfather (Michael McKean), and her aging hippie of a father (John Goodman).

Leah scoffed at these claims, though not to her sister's face, for Zilpah was the only one who could cause my mother to hold her tongue about anything.

There is Alice, the matriarch with a sharp tongue and a painful secret; Kathleen, her reformed alcoholic daughter with a worm farm in California (who wouldn't be caught dead in the same room as her mother); Ann Marie, the «little miss perfect» daughter - in - law who has a few secrets of her own; and Maggie, the only daughter of Kathleen, who has recently become pregnant — at the same time she realizes her boyfriend is a jerk.

At the center of this matrix is Osama al - Kharrat (his last name means exaggerator), grandson of a hakawati and son of a wealthy car dealer and a glamorous, sharp - tongued mother, one of many resplendently witty and wily women characters.

I now live in a quiet village in East Germany, where people stare at me without comprehension when I try to communicate with them in my husband's mother tongue.

Mother tongue (2017) at the Whitney Museum, New York, and There is no east or west (2015) at the Ljubljana Graphic Art Biennial.

The exhibition will include the artist's recent video Pre-Image (Blind as the Mother Tongue)(2017), which debuted at documenta 14 in Athens and presents a powerful allegory for the experience of exile.

Her mother tongue is that of abstraction and her vocabulary comes from the domestic materials that are close at hand.

I've just learned that in our new class here at the University of Calgary, we'll have no fewer than 44 different undergraduate institutions represented — 17 mother tongues, apart from English and French, are spoken.

Teaches Science and Filipino (Mother Tongue) to three sections with at least 32 students each classroom.

Newborns» Cry Melody Is Shaped by Their Native Language, Science Direct http://www.sciencedirect.com/ News article (Fetus Learns Intonations of Mother's Tongue byy Jennifer Thomas, HealthDay Reporter) at http://www.myfoxal.com/Global/story.asp?s=11451377&clienttype=printable

Newborns» Cry Melody Is Shaped by Their Native Language, Science Direct http://www.sciencedirect.com/ News article (Fetus Learns Intonations of Mother's Tongue by Jennifer Thomas, HealthDay Reporter) at http://www.myfoxal.com/Global/story.asp?s=11451377&clienttype=printable

Many have never bought or sold previously, or perhaps do not have English as their mother - tongue, (likewise their would - be agent) already putting them at a disadvantage sometimes.