Sentences with phrase «about other languages»

I also enjoy cooking, going on cruises, meeting people from all over the world, and learning about other languages and customs.

Regardless, students do need to learn about other faiths as they would learn about other languages and countries.

Although teachers can not be fluent in every language spoken in their classroom, general knowledge about other languages can lead to informative analysis.

She even added that information about other languages in books is moot and academic compared to the learning process of personally interacting with a person who speaks the language being learned.

An independent evaluation of ELLA by the Swinburne University of Technology found it had a positive impact on children's engagement in learning about other languages and cultures.

Lots of us have seen the beginning of Animal Crossing: New Leaf in Japanese but what about other languages?

Not exact matches

«People tend to mimic each other's body language, which might help them develop intuitions about what other people are feeling — intuitions about whether they'll treat them fairly,» explains DeSteno.

With Bixby Vision, users can learn details about objects and locations, find out how to purchase items they see in the real world, and translate languages, among many other tasks.

Unlike other apps, DuoLingo is honest about how you're going to learn a language: Do it every single day.

Some people are saying they fibbed about the number of languages they speak, while others are saying they really aren't the team players they pretended to be.

This might include data about preventive care, proper nutrition, and other early - childhood health issues (all delivered in local languages and dialects).

For years, I've heard that EQ is about an ability to read people — to pick up on body language, to assess a situation and read feelings, to display a warmth and emotional connection that sets you apart from others, to smile more or shake hands more vigorously.

But over the years, employers have reached differing conclusions about how the Act's language should be interpreted — specifically the line that says employers must treat pregnant women the same as «other persons not so affected [by pregnancy] but similar in their ability or inability to work.»

The company's employees speak about 12 different languages, «but other than that, we leave the language specialties to professional linguists who offer over 180 different dialects of services from over 4,000 linguists globally,» says Buckstein.

In thinking about improving the country's infrastructure, and provoking real action, Bledsoe and others say, language matters.

The blurring of language — retailers» using «Black Friday» to describe deals that happen on days other than the day after Thanksgiving — makes Black Friday less about one day of the year and more about a deal's perceived value.

Consider other language in Dearborn's letter: «After thorough consideration, the Board has unanimously concluded that it is not prepared to engage with Gannett about a combination of our companies based on the value you indicated in the Proposal.»

«I have been in entertainment and branding for 25 years now, but this is a whole other language that most people don't know, and to be able to teach this to kids that don't have the Harvard education is a beautiful thing because it's not just about owning your life, it's not about owning property,» Lopez said.

Twitter Analytics provides you with a ton of information about your audience — including their gender, location, interests, and language, as well as other companies and people they follow.

Pursuing an omnichannel sales strategy, Macy's in 2011 began selling overseas into China and about 100 other countries through its English - language shopping website, macys.com, shipping goods from the U.S. to overseas online shoppers.

Other changes under Poloz include abandoning so - called forward guidance that gives a direct hint on the next move in borrowing costs, and adding new language to forecasts about inflation risks.

I've been to funerals and encountered this kind of prejudice where those leading the service insisted you must be a member of their religion to get over grief, and you can only really talk about it in the language of the Bible, no other discussion has any meaning.

In the ideal case, once a single human acquires a bit of knowledge about the world, he or she can transmit it to all other humans via language, so nobody else has to independently make that same discovery.

We do not know anything about the days of Noah other than remnants of a symbolic picture language that brought the story forward and was recorded by Moses in about 1,400 BC.

Then you admit your illogical ranting about how there was an uproar when the Bible was published in other languages has nothing to do with my point about the absurdity of requiring people to read the Quran in Arabic in order to properly understand it.

do I need any approval before I practice my religion, do I have to prove my religion before I practice, my holy book further describe that you must carry a gun in 21st century because there is too much crime in this world, but it doesn't say much about if I migrate to another country these rules will still apply, Or I should modified them according to my comfort, like talking in English which is not my religious language wearing pants or not, having education or not, standing in line or not, I am so confused what should I do can someone help me, should I go back to country where my religion originated or back in time ask my guru questions about western world confusion, or just decide by myself what suites me, or preach other develop country that you guys are wrong be peaceful.

«You can continue teaching Semitic languages which you enjoy, or you can act on what you know — that we have saved your life over the years, and we can save the lives of others as well if you chose to teach them about us.»

But what we believe about others has nothing to do with the others, only with the language we use about them.

Others have written in such positive and beautiful language about priestly loving.

And I try to learn as much as I can about language, customs, traditions and other aspects that can lead to a better understanding of a text.

If one accepts that metaphors (and all language about God) are principally adverbial, having to do with how we relate to God rather than defining the nature of God, then no metaphors or models can be reified, petrified, or expanded so as to exclude all others.

Because of God's transcendence it would be mythological to refer to God's action in terms appropriate only to objects available, in principle at least, to ordinary sense perception.13 This especially means that one can not speak of God in terms of the categories of time and space; 14 i.e., whatever is predicated of God can not apply only to some particular time and space, but must apply equally to all times and spaces.15 Thus the implication of Ogden's criterion for non-mythological language about God corresponds to his statement of several years ago, that «there is not the slightest evidence that God has acted in Christ in any way different from the way in which he primordially acts in every other event.

When crotchety old grammarians complain about the debasement of language, often they are merely deploring change per se; other times they wax wroth over what seem to most of us relatively insignificant losses in precision, clarity, or beauty.

When we use such a vocabulary, we find ourselves thinking about the world in different ways — and sometimes, at least, we may find common ground with other Christians from whom we were divided when our only language was that of contemporary politics.

While many of the books about Jesus are written in scholarly language and primarily for other scholars, Viola and Sweet have written a well - researched and documented biography of Jesus, but in a way that the average Christian can read and understand.

In other words, Collingwood answers Ayer by emphasizing that metaphysical language about being is never situated on the level of empirically verifiable or tautological propositions but on the level of absolute presuppositions.

As sponsor of the nationalism, in other words, the state makes no use of transcendental language nor, apparently, do citizens in thinking about their nation.

If we have something to say about the timeless enemies of the human condition — injustice, ignorance, bigotry, exploitation, hunger, war — we will fail if we try to sound like every other voice in the public realm instead of using our language and tradition.

On the other hand, he stresses that God is not an exception to the categories and uses much of the same language about him as he uses about actual occasions.

He needs to see the significance of self - involving language as he makes judgments about God, the world, and other people, as he acts in various ways as a Christian in society, and as he expresses his commitment in word and action.

Is it possible that the exclusionary language Jesus uses, the rejection He speaks of, is about something other than eternal damnation?

Here's a question: Is it possible that the exclusionary language Jesus uses, the rejection He speaks of, is about something other than eternal damnation?

By working out a neoclassical theory of nonliteral religious discourse consistent with his neoclassical theism generally, he has not only overcome the notorious contradictions involved in classical theism's use of analogy and other modes of nonliteral language, he has also given good reasons for thinking that our distinctively modern reflection about God results from two movements of thought, not simply from one.

For all your language about «tolerance» and «respect for other's beliefs» you don't seem very tolerant or respectful of my beliefs.

People often say silly things about other people's languages, such as George W. Bush's rumored claim that «The problem with the French is they have no word for entrepreneur.»

The Promise states: Although we may have different languages, cultures and beliefs, each member makes a commitment to do her best... to develop her spiritual side - whatever she believes or cares about, and to respect the beliefs of others.

@jf well your information about the New Testament is about as accurate as your Old Testament knowledge, The prophecies of the Old testament concerning Christ could not have been written after the fact because we now have the Dead Sea Scrolls, with an almost complete Old Testament dated 100 - 200 years before the birth of Christ, Your interpretation of God at His worst shows a complete lack of understanding as to what was being communicated.We don't know what the original texts of the New Testament were written in as to date there are no original copies available.Greek was the common language of the day.Most of the gospels were reported written somewhere in the 30 year after Christs resurrection time frame, not the unspecified «long after «you reference and three of the authors knew Jesus personally in His earthly ministry, the other Knew Jesus as his savior and was in the company of many who also knew Jesus.You keep referencing changes, «gazillion «was the word used but you never referenced one change, so it is assumed we are to take your word for it.What may we ask are your credentials?Try reading Job your own self, particularly the section were Job says «My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes»

«In language intelligible to every generation,» we read, «she should be able to answer the ever - recurring questions which men ask about the meaning of this pres ent life and of the life to come, and how one is related to the other.»

So when we, in the Church, discuss homosexuality as though it were an issue faced by «other people» who are «out there,» when we resort to stereotypes and language about hell and judgment and damnation, we may be doing serious damage to the most precious and vulnerable among us.

The first, can appear the model of pure a priori thought, disengaged from the world of experience; the second, a massive collection of detailed descriptions and theories about the enormous variety of material phenomena, but with no intelligible unity; and the third an obscure and generally unrigorous rhapsody of affirmations and aspirations, at one end couched in the languages of politics and sentimentality, and at the other in the terms of a cosmic poetry unregulated by science or philosophy.