Sentences with phrase «few words in the language»

No wonder then that Martin Luther realised while in the process of translating the Hebrew Bible into German just how difficult it was to convey so much in so few words in another language.

Google Translate is a huge help, even if you can only squeak out a few words in the language at hand.

Not exact matches

You can't expect the world to speak English, so it's always helpful to learn a few basic words in the local language of your destination.

Susan and Sarah, in the greek language, there are a few different words used to describe the different types of love.

Let us say a few words here on the nature of language in the developing present.

Illustrations are shared abundantly: words spoken at the marriage altar, by the judge passing sentence, in the ceremonies of christening and knighting, to name only a few.18 These examples of dynamistic and creative functions of language are the residue of a primative view of the power of speech before words became impoverished.

They are also the language of worship — the first response of the first witnesses to the resurrection before the first New Testament documents were written — and the language of the creeds, which in a few words summarize four centuries of struggle towards the truth.

Luther's studies were becoming more exciting than ever, because he had time to start Greek, the original language of the Christian source texts and was dabbling in Hebrew the language of the Old Testament, getting to know at least the alphabet, and a few words, from Reuchlin's Rudiments which he already possessed.

Unlike quite a few kids, «cookie» and «cake» were not words early on in his language development.

But I think the amount of information a captain verbally transmits during a game is normally pretty limited to a few words or phrases which are often repetitive and understood by everyone, whatever language they are in.

Few words like «left», «right», «offside and warning the lad in case of being caught, in any language is not hard to learn.

At 18 months, your toddler will probably have a vocabulary of 10 - 20 words — which at some point in the next few months will balloon to 50 + words as their language really takes off (they will probably also be using their name to refer to themselves).

For 3 - year - old language skills are such that they can communicate their feelings in a few words.

(Think about it: If you are writing in a language that has only two letters, each word has to be pretty long in order to have a unique spelling; if you have 26 letters to choose from, your words can be shorter, and a given sentence, or paragraph, or novel will also contain fewer keystrokes overall.)

• count to and across 100, forwards and backwards, beginning with 0 or 1, or from any given number • count, read and write numbers to 100 in numerals; count in multiples of 2s, 5s and 10s • given a number, identify 1 more and 1 less • identify and represent numbers using objects and pictorial representations including the number line, and use the language of: equal to, more than, less than (fewer), most, least • read and write numbers from 1 to 20 in numerals and words • read, write and interpret mathematical statements involving addition (+), subtraction -LRB--) and equals (=) signs • represent and use number bonds and related subtraction facts within 20 • add and subtract one - digit and two - digit numbers to 20, including 0 • solve one - step problems that involve addition and subtraction, using concrete objects and pictorial representations, and missing number problems such as 7 =??

Poor oral language development, as students who live in poverty typically hear 32 million fewer words than those students born above the poverty line in the first five years of life.

Aware that some English phonemes such as the sounds represented by / th / in either and ether are present in few other languages, teachers can demonstrate how the / th / sounds are formed (with the tongue and front teeth) and can help their students practice pronouncing words that feature these sounds.

Other than «inside recess,» there are few words in the English language that illicit more moans and groans among my 5th graders than the words «story problem.»

They will learn letters, words, songs, dances, writing and drawing to name a few in both languages and classes.

«Let thy words be few,» the Bible admonishes us (Ecclesiastes 5:2), but the Bible itself is the source of a surprising number of the words and phrases used today in the English language.

As an accountant, I have a background in the vbscripting language, and I've been meaning to get around to writing a script that will do all of this within MS Word, but the steps above seem pretty simple, so I might just knock this down a few notches on my to do list.

I know this is not a review as such for my treasured Kindle Paperwhite, but I just wanted to say thank you for excellent service, and basically saving me as an English speaking woman married in a foreign country 30 years ago with no access to English language books except for a few extremely expensive outdated bestsellers and suddenly Kindle came along and I had total access to the written word of the entire world.

If you can, absorb a few words in the local language.

Known as Bislama, the local language of Vanuatu has been derived from a mix of Pidgin English that first spread over the Vanuatu archipelago at the turn of the 20th century.Today nearly 95 percent of Bislama is based on English with a few French words and «island language» mixed in.

A few weeks ago, just after my last column, the Global Language Monitor, a company specialized in tracking new English words, declared «Web 2.0» as the millionth word in the English language.

Otherwise you'll find that the game tends to throw around a bunch of Russian names and words, hoping that you'll understand a fraction of them, speaking of which — unlike the guards and enemies present in the other games in the Assassin's Creed Chronicles trilogy, no one seems to actually speak their respective language, save for a few widely known words.

This meant that I had some art knowledge, that I had begun to speak just a few words of the language that was spoken by art people in art places.

> Well, I said I'd talk about two windows on human nature — the cognitive machinery with which we conceptualize the world, and now I'm going to say a few words about the relationship types that govern human social interaction, again, as reflected in language.

At the same time, Rose says there is plenty that we don't know, such as whether or not it is safer for employers to use fewer words in a termination clause and avoid all - inclusive language, and whether, for public policy reasons, future court decisions will put an onus on employers to make clear to employees the differences between ESA entitlements and the common law before they sign ESA - only contracts.

Slaw is likely one of the few words that has no anagrams in the major European languages or Latin.

But it may be safer for employers to use fewer words than less and avoid all - inclusive language (like that found in Wood and North) due to Roden, a 2005 Court of Appeal decision.

It is the case, of course, that we don't always have a single word in English that serves the same function as the single word in the exotic language, so sometimes it takes us a few words to express pretty much... [more]

There are very few words in the English language that have a gender differentiation; the most prominent of them all is blond (a man with gold colored hair) and blonde (a woman with gold colored hair).

One of the most common occurrences among low - grade writing companies is that they outsource projects to writers in other countries — writers who may be able to string together a few words but don't necessarily grasp the cadence of the English language.

This language lets you make impactful statements in as few words as possible to deliver a powerful resume punch.