Sentences with phrase «foreign tongue»

They began to express themselves in foreign tongues and make bold proclamation as the Spirit prompted them... [The people] asked in utter amazement,... «How is it that each of us hears them in his native tongue?

UC, Others Want Asian Languages on College Tests: Education: Proponents are pressing to expand the list of foreign tongues on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.

We, too, may need to navigate a Nile to dwell in desert solitude awhile, with foreign tongue and unfamiliar face endure injustice, exile, and disgrace.

This can include expressing yourself effectively through speech or the written word as well as showing a facility for learning foreign tongues.

Mark Walker talks to himself in foreign tongues.

Though the technical language of trinitarian theology is a foreign tongue to most Christians, the confession of God as triune provides the framework in which other Christian beliefs cohere.

Not one was able to do what tongues was by a gift, speak in a foreign tongue.

And for many Muslims, even modern Arabic is a foreign tongue.

Researchers have found that babies also prefer when mom speaks in her native language to someone else speaking in a foreign tongue.

You can also get a feel for agnosia by thinking of what happens when you listen to a foreign tongue.

Finally, Elisabeth Pain, our contributing editor for South and Western Europe, writes that the challenges of publishing for non-native English speakers go well beyond struggles with a foreign tongue.

Parents will be pleased to note that the script doesn't really contain any «potty» jokes, and includes only a few moments of mild sexual innuendo and a murmur of language in a foreign tongue.

Instead of mastering their characters, the actors spend two hours pretending they're trying to master a foreign tongue.

He even has one of those scenes where he tries to impress someone with his mastery of a foreign tongue, only to find his phraseology translated as «May your children be born with three bottoms.»

Speaking and using a foreign tongue in the vernacular way native speakers do is important.

All our research projects with the BFI (British Film Institute), working with a variety of teachers, have confirmed that short films help students to gain enjoyment from language learning and develop confidence to express themselves in a foreign tongue, whilst learning more about culture.

She too had only seven years of schooling, but unlike her husband, she'd never taken to English, and it remains a foreign tongue even today.

With time, learning to cook a new meal, tackling a DIY project, or holding a basic conversation in a foreign tongue could become as natural as glancing at your watch.

It's like they're speaking a foreign tongue...

He muttered something in a foreign tongue to his cohort, who laughed as they left.

The first taste to the foreign tongue is unpleasant but, glad of the warmth, I drank plenty anyway.

It's a shame that it's not yet in English and accessible to foreign tongues, but this Hebrew video documents the creation of Israel's first Green Map.

So I indulged in Spanish romantic poetry and magical realism and soaked up every word of this foreign tongue that I loved so much.

But at the end of the day they're both speaking a foreign tongue, achievement unlocked.

Below are a few of our current favorites, so you can pick up a foreign tongue without ever stepping foot inside a classroom.

Busuu is another online language course that prides itself on providing all the tools you'll need to start jabbering someone's ear off in a foreign tongue, while still being able to offer the lion's portion of its course materials on the web for no cost to the consumer.

Translation earbuds might eliminate some utilitarian reasons to know a language, but if you want to understand jokes, read poetry, or fall in love in a foreign tongue, you'll have to actually learn it

The app can autodetect languages that it is hearing and translate accordingly, at which point you will hear your words in a foreign tongue or another person's words in your own.

Today, traditional languages are so far removed from their vernacular that singing in English has become the mainstay, the local languages have become the foreign tongue.