Sentences with phrase «most speakers of the language»

While most speakers of the language, primarily in Belgium and the Netherlands, have a competent grasp of English, perhaps this means a shift of this particular market towards Stockpair's benefit.

Not exact matches

In fact, of the most important predictors of a baby's language development may be the amount of time he spends in conversation with an older, competent speaker.

And since the mother language of most PhD students is not English, well, they want to get better at academic writing as non-native English speakers.

While English is the de facto language of science, most scientists are non-native English speakers.

Data on the number and location of surviving fluent speakers of endangered languages are scant, but Amano and colleagues used the most complete source available — an online repository called Ethnologue — for their analysis, he says.

The simple fact that English readers can parse this discussion of the various spatial strategies involved means we must be able at least to comprehend and employ the different approaches, as is true for most other language speakers.

Sukiyaki Western Django - which has been filmed entirely in English, though most of the actors clearly aren't native speakers of the language - follows a mysterious stranger (Hideaki Ito) as he rolls into a prototypically violent Old West Town, where he quickly finds himself caught smack - dab in the middle of a feud between two warring clans.

Speakers of Slavic languages will most likely be familiar with a number of other interpretations from their native surroundings.

Most of the courses at Duolingo have been developed by native speakers of the languages represented on the site.

Look at some of the features you get in this app: * Adorable graphics and easy to use interface * Multilingual language learning tool for native English speaking users * Formatted in a proven most effective way to learn and practice a second language * Each paragraph of story is presented in English with Spanish or Chinese subtitles * Optional voice read along with text by native Spanish or Chinese speaker * Automatic or manual page turn with gesture support * Music by well known songwriter, NienShen Ma * Facebook Connect * Sync with Q.L.L. (Quick Language Learning) website * More than half a million users have downloaded the language learning picture books already!

Apart from Kannada, English is the most popular language of the city, making it convenient for non-Hindi speakers to communicate and connect.

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

From what I've read one of the most interesting features of the game will be that not all the characters are English - speakers and if you don't know the language, you will need to rely on a translating implant to understand what they're saying.

However, if that is the extent of your English language problems, you have mastered the language very well (better than most native speakers).

In most of the meetings with the Elders Council, I was one of the few people who did not speak or understand the Cree language; all of their meetings were conducted entirely in Cree, with a translator available to translate for non-Cree speakers in attendance.

Virtually everyone uses verbal fillers, though the frequency can vary greatly from person to person.18 A study of one language database showed that speakers produced between 1.2 and 88.5 uhs and ums for every thousand words, with a median filler rate of 17.3 per thousand words.19 Other databases show anywhere from three to twenty uhs and ums for every thousand words, placing uh and um thirty - first in a ranking of most commonly used utterances, just ahead of or and just after not.20 A British study showed that, contrary to popular expectations, the use of verbal fillers does not indicate a lack of education or manners; instead, the use of uh and um increases with education and socioeconomic status, a finding with particular implications for the legal profession.21 Older people use more uhs and ums than younger people, and, curiously, men consistently use verbal fillers more often than women — a finding that has been replicated across several studies.22 Women, for their part, appear to use a higher ratio of ums to uhs than their male counterparts.23

Sales people are some of the most prolific speakers with a good command of language skills and voice modulation.

Likewise, the withholding of Physical Touch by those closest to her has the potential to cause her more pain and anxiety than most non-native speakers of her love language can imagine.