Sentences with phrase «learning foreign tongues»

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

Not exact matches

I have not seen the actual words before, but based upon the language quoted, seems to me that the «tongues» part means you'll learn foreign languages (as in not the one from the area you grew up in), not you'll make up gibberish or speak in some alien (as in not of this workd) language.

World responsibility in education further entails serious attention to the teaching of foreign languages, beginning in the early years of school, when children can quickly and naturally learn another tongue in the same fashion as they learned their native language.

To learn how this transition into speech occurs in the brain, the University of Washington's Patricia Kuhl played babies in both age ranges separate recordings of their native tongue and a foreign one while measuring their brain activity.

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.

(In fact, Mandarin could only be taught as a foreign language since it is only one of the many dialects spoken in China and is rarely the native tongue of Chinese immigrants to the U.S.) But these programs do not fit the theoretical model of bilingual education since the children learn to read and write first in English and the Mandarin is only a small part of their instruction.

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.

When learning a foreign language, there's a moment where you stop thinking in your native tongue and start thinking in your target language.