Sentences with phrase «most spoken languages»

Amy Wike, My name is, 2015, yarn, graph paper, 32 x 12 inches This work comprises the phrase «My name is» translated into Morse code in the 50 most spoken languages, where one stitch = one beat and one vertical row = one language.
the most spoken languages in the county after English.
In most spoken languages, there is a trade - off between verb agreement and rigid word order when it comes to expressing who did what to whom.
What's more, Vietnamese is the seventh most spoken language in the US.
Not undermining the importance of knowing other languages, including your mother tongue, English remains as the third most spoken language in the World.
This meant that Abdullahii Mire had to transfer from his previous school to Unity Primary within Dagahaley and learn a new language in school, called Swahili, Kenya's second most spoken language.
School standards minister Nick Gibb said: «Mandarin Chinese is the most spoken language in the world, so this programme plays a crucial role in helping these pupils achieve the fluency they need to succeed in an increasingly global economy.
It is the second most studied and the third most spoken language on the planet.
With the Spanish language being the second most spoken language in the world, traders have no problem whatsoever receiving customer service in Spanish.
Currently, the most spoken language in Ireland is English, but «Irish», also called Gaelic or
English happens to be the most spoken language in the world and being a native speaker already gives you an unique advantage.
Spanish in particular is the world's second most spoken language so any move on that front would be notable.
So, while Canadian users will only be able to interact with the Google Assistant using English for the time being, it's likely that the voice - enabled helper will also support French by the end of the year seeing how French is the seventh most spoken language in the world and Google will likely prioritize its support.
Since Canada is an ex-British colony, it has many expats from the UK and France — in fact, French is the second most spoken language in the country behind English.

Not exact matches

Through a series of experiments, researchers from the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business and the University of California, Berkeley discovered that spoken language most clearly reveals a person's thinking ability.
One of the primary barriers to cash - flow modeling, however, is that most small and medium - size business owners don't speak the language of accountants.
Though English is its most commonly spoken language, the U.S. has no official language.
The most prized spending demographics lean younger, however, and to capture their attention you need to speak their language.
I had the good fortune to speak with Mark Bowden, one of the most respected experts on the planet about body language (the full audio interview is included at the end of the article).
Most importantly, speak your customer's language.
I attended a church with «gags,» and what struck me the most after leaving it was that the people still there thought that speaking «gag language» was normal.
At times the two seem to speak separate languages — perhaps most strikingly when they use the very same words.
Accounts tell of her being able to speak languages of which she had no previous knowledge and demonstrating clairvoyance by revealing the most intimate secrets and transgression of people with whom she had no contact.
«Trinity» did not originally mean, as it does for some later, that there are three kinds of revelation, the Father speaking through creation and the Spirit though experience, by which the words and example of the Son must be corrected; it meant rather that language must be found and definitions created so that Christians, who believe in only one God, can affirm that he is most adequately and bindingly known in Jesus.
The theological language of sin and grace once spoke of a decentered ego with all the force of the most radical French postmodernists.
Most authors in Speaking the Christian God allow for some variation in imagery for the Trinity, so long as the language of «Father, Son, and Holy Spirit» remains central.
His own pet proof of «why there almost certainly is no God» (a proof in which he takes much evident pride) is one that a usually mild - spoken friend of mine (a friend who has devoted too much of his life to teaching undergraduates the basic rules of logic and the elementary language of philosophy) has described as «possibly the single most incompetent logical argument ever made for or against anything in the whole history of the human race.»
Also, most of the studies of the linguistic abilities of apes emphasize language production (though the work with Koko does include a study of her ability to comprehend spoken English).
This manifests itself not only in the way in which Aristotelian notions of the «unmoved mover» or neo-Platonic ideas of «being - subsisting from - itself» have been taken to be the proper definition of what is meant when we speak of «God», but also in liturgical language where all too often the basic concept implied or (as most often seems to be the case) affirmed is the utter immutability of deity, along with the rigidly legalistic moralism which it is suggested should mark those who claim to «obey» the divine mandates.
With all due respect, Dr. Borg may have a head of «knowledge» to speak the most advanced Christianese; however, I hope his is a language of the heart and not just of the mind only.
Serving in Paris, France, she is among the 52,000 Mormon missionaries - most of them young adults; the others retired couples - who are knocking on doors and speaking 107 different languages in 180 countries, according to Lyman Kirkland, a church spokesman.
Like most Pentecostals, I believe that speaking in tongues is first and foremost a prayer language, a language of adoration and worship and intercession, between us and God.
But I am also working on dropping most of my church speak language from my vocabulary.
Ability to speak three or four of the most prevalent languages is not much help, for the barrier to understanding is far more serious than the barrier of language.
Perhaps these men were adapting themselves to the culture of their times, speaking the language that would resonate most with their listeners.
They began to modify the old scholastic system in the madrasas and sought to bring the some twenty - six different dialects of Turkish closer to the language as it is spoken in Istanbul, where it is used in its most refined and articulate form.
An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).
I disagree, though, that this has anything to do with God, and I am disappointed that a good Bible - believing evangelical wouldn't call this so - called masculine Christianity by its most appropriate name: sin... Each of us gravitates toward language that speaks to us about our own relationship with God.
Significantly enough, our own language has often adopted the language of Buddhism when it intended to speak of that which is most other or most threatening to itself.
No other people have spoken their own language after coming back and most of the 5 times this happened haven't come to their own land the same that was taken from them.
I am first defining the poetic function in a negative manner, following Roman Jakobson, as the inverse of the referential function understood in a narrow descriptive sense, then in a positive way as what in my volume on metaphor I call the metaphorical reference.7 And in this regard, the most extreme paradox is that when language most enters into fiction — e.g., when a poet forges the plot of a tragedy — it most speaks truth because it redescribes reality so well known that it is taken for granted in terms of the new features of this plot.
At Acts 10:46, Luke used a variation of the same expressions found in 2:11 alongside «speaking in tongues,» so that prophesying in a foreign language is most probably meant again.46 Peter's companions from Joppa in a multilingual society would presumably have recognized other languages than their own.
This unity becomes especially clear in religious language; the high forms of religion, the most subtle mystic, as well as the most vigorous prophetism, constantly speak the language of primitive magical religion without being conscious of it.
Since Arabic, as the language of the Koran, therefore of God himself, was considered as the most perfect language, it superseded and replaced other languages (Greek, Syriac, Coptic, etc.) that were spoken before the Muslim conquest.
Most people could speak, read and write either Greek or Latin, and many could deal with both languages.
«Most people don't speak all the languages on wine labels,» he says.
Swahili and English are the most commonly spoken languages in addition to several local tribal languages.
I Love my heritage, both my boys (Born in the US) speak french, but I won't accept that my beloved HABS settle for less because someone puts language as the MOST important factor.
The group is built around the notion that people who have wrestled are interested in doing business with people who have wrestled, because they speak a common language, most notably, «that everything is easier than wrestling was.»
The forward, who can speak five different languages, spent most of his career in Germany, starting out at Stuttgart before moving to Schalke 04 and most recently signing for Hoffenheim.
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