Sentences with phrase «language speaker living»

A Russian - language speaker living in London recorded some rude responses to questions about being gay from Apple's digital assistant.

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He hasn't even bothered to offer a French language site for the six million French speakers living in Quebec.

The speaker's drama in preaching is both a search for a language of lived experience and for a way of speaking sermonic texts that are «believable» at a time when coherent, theological frameworks have collapsed.

Deprivation varies by home language, with pupils from Somali, Lingala and French - speaking homes having the highest levels of eligibility for free schools meals, while Igbo, Yoruba and Shona speakers live in financially better - off households.

Although the human eye can distinguish millions of colors, human languages have only a few color terms, such as «red,» «green,» «blue» and «yellow,» which speakers can use to communicate about colors in everyday life.

Infants of this age, however, do not appear to have any positive or negative expectations of speakers of an unfamiliar language, suggesting that negativity toward groups different from their own is likely learned after the first year of life, the researchers found.

Within months of living in a foreign country, a young child may speak a second language like a native speaker.

Understanding the cultural nuances of a language requires extensive ongoing contact with its speakers, and for that reason Kramsch doubts that anyone could ever live in more than four or five languages.

«While this family was held captive, speakers of all living languages of the region tried to communicate with them but failed,» says Frank Seifart of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Vicky Gough, Schools Adviser at the British Council said: «With more than one billion Mandarin Chinese speakers in the world, it is vital that more of our young people learn this valuable language in order to give them the advantage they need to live in a global society and compete in a global economy.

This practice, diametrically opposed to that in Singapore, which outperforms the United States in reading in English in spite of the fact that nearly everyone in that city - state speaks a different language at home, has no chance of narrowing the gap in academic literacy with native English speakers; instead it will exacerbate it, to be followed by more civil rights pressure on our universities to lower their academic standards still further in an attempt to achieve equal outcomes, in a vicious cycle that will continue the degradation of America's civil and academic life.

All this with a group of students that predominantly live in poverty (90 % qualify for free or reduced lunch) and many of whom are non native English speakers (70 % and English language learners).

Most live in Belize City, but nearly everyone else in Belize is either a first - or second - language speaker of Creole.

Having lived in Seoul, Hong Kong, New York (where she is currently based), and Toronto, Chun investigates how ESL texts not only educate the non-English speaker in a language of empire, she also abstracts and resources and makes use of the sounds of English itself in an attempt to demystify the way these sounds — in combination with the submissive attitude needed to learn them — tacitly articulate a world order.

He was living in New York and noticed that all of the Spanish language bookstores had disappeared despite its population of 2 million Spanish speakers.

Themes inspired by each speaker's engagement with Kawara's work include everyday life, globalism, politics, language, travel, and pictorial abstraction.

Hypo: The defendant is a college professor who is the only living «speaker» of a dead language.

Google Assistant, the search giant's answer to Alexa that lives on Android smartphones, tablets, and Google Home speakers, will expand to more languages over the course of the year, to cover 95 percent of all eligible Android smartphones, Google < a href =» https://www.blog.google/products/assistant/google-assistant-going-global/» > announced this morning.

The first sentence cleverly reveals both her overall demeanor as a teacher and the fact that she lived in France long enough to acquire perfect language fluency among native speakers.