Sentences with phrase «number of languages spoken»

Twenty per cent of Australians have at least one parent who was born overseas, and the number of languages spoken at home by Australians is more than 400 (Australian Bureau of Statistics fi gures 2009 — www.abs.gov.au).

New York City leads the nation in the number of languages spoken at home: a remarkable 192 or more, the U.S. Census Bureau said in a report this week.

There are hundreds of other names for the chile peppers of Africa because of the sheer number of languages spoken on the continent.

Some people are saying they fibbed about the number of languages they speak, while others are saying they really aren't the team players they pretended to be.

Not exact matches

«You can't simply just set up shop at the border and say, «Here's something I want to do,» says Castelli, an experienced business executive who speaks four different languages and has spent 12 years doing international business development for a number of firms, including Alcan.

After his death, a number of other books, dictionaries, and grammar manuals in various languages were found in Jefferson's library, suggesting that he studied additional languages beyond those he spoke and wrote well.

What we meant to model was the sending of one of our number to be a foreign missionary — to learn a new language, to understand a local culture, to sacrifice the amenities of affluence and to live knowing that he or she is always being watched by seekers — while the rest of us stay here as lifetime local missionaries, learning to speak the language of the unchurched, understanding secular culture, sacrificing the amenities of affluence and living as a «watched» person in a society that is skeptical of Christian spirituality until it sees the real thing on display.

At the same time it was estimated that there yet remained five hundred to a thousand other language groups spoken by substantial numbers of people into which translations should be made, and many of them will be.

This statement, albeit in somewhat different language, could have been made by Karl Barth, or Rudolf Bultmann, or Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Suzanne de Dietrich or any number of others who have spoken to us of these matters during the century.

There are a number of other places where the Bible speaks using «all of» language where it is quite clear it doesn't mean that literalistically.

Thus, if that rule of thumb holds true (due to the normal profit / greed motive of humankind), then it follows that among the 120 followers, a number of those followers spoke two languages.

«Again, the corrupt and unsound form of speaking in the plural number to a single person, you to one, instead of thou, contrary to the pure, plain, and single language of truth, thou to one, and you to more than one, which had always been used by God to men, and men to God, as well as one to another, from the oldest record of time till corrupt men, for corrupt ends, in later and corrupt times, to flatter, fawn, and work upon the corrupt nature in men, brought in that false and senseless way of speaking you to one, which has since corrupted the modern languages, and hath greatly debased the spirits and depraved the manners of men; — this evil custom I had been as forward in as others, and this I was now called out of and required to cease from.

Christian acquiescence in this fate can be measured in any number of ways: by the extent to which the Church renounces her inherent «platonism,» thinking and speaking in the language of psychology, sociology, economics, and politics rather than philosophy (metaphysics) and theology; by the tendency to view the Church not first as sacrament transcending political order, but as a mere mediating institution within that order; by the «political» or «clerical» temptation to equate true ecclesial reform with institutional or curial reform.

The number of French - speaking players on this team can not be a coincidence, and if acquaintance with the French language has anything to do with successful football, then so does hair color.

(If he's being raised in a bilingual environment, the number of words he can speak may be split between the two languages he's learning.)

«When there have been significant numbers of new people arriving in neighbourhoods, perhaps not able to speak the same language as those living there, on occasions not really wanting or even willing to integrate - that has created a kind of discomfort and disjointedness in some neighbourhoods,» he said.

The study found that a number of young people who had suffered from language problems in childhood often still find it difficult to understand speech as young adults, especially when spoken quickly.

That's why, when there have been significant numbers of new people arriving in neighbourhoods — perhaps not able to speak the same language as those living there, on occasions not really wanting or even willing to integrate — that has created a kind of discomfort and disjointedness in some neighbourhoods.

But also in the model are numbers that stand for the prestige of each language — the cultural value people place on speaking it — and numbers that describe a language's economic value.

In fact, I already have something surprisingly close to a Universal Translator in my pocket, courtesy of a growing number of automated spoken - language - translating services that run on smartphones.

The software parses any text file (including transcriptions of spoken language) and tallies the number of words that fall into particular categories.

The researchers then compared Carabayo to languages spoken in the Colombian Amazon area nowadays and found a number of very good matches between Carabayo and Tikuna, but not with any other living language of the region.

The ancient women also were related to other people who speak the remaining and endangered 75 or so Tungusic languages spoken by dwindling numbers of ethnic people in eastern Siberia and China.

Taking genetic data from 49 populations worldwide, Dediu and Ladd searched for correlations between 983 genetic variants, including ASPM - D and microcephalin - D, and 26 features of the languages spoken by the populations, including the number of consonants and the use of inflections or tones.

Even outside of the university, you will find that the Danes» English proficiency level is very high, just as some Danes speak a number of other languages including German, French and Spanish.

And as increasing numbers of practitioners trained through The Institute for Functional Medicine seek out health coaches who can «speak the language of Functional Medicine,» they look to FMCA.

The main spoken language is Spanish, although a significant number of Peruvians speak Quechua or other native languages.

This includes age, birthday, zodiac sign, height, weight, marital status, number of kids, religion, education, job, spoken languages and what they are looking for in a man.

• The app provided by the site can be quite tricky to use; • Most couples here are over the age of 30, so it will be hard to find a younger couple, under this age; • The majority of the couples on the site come from areas where English is spoken, so those who can't handle this language won't be able to communicate with them; • Due to the large number of members, in case you search to fulfill a particular fantasy, it may take you quite a while to find the right person for it;

Background: Current relationship status, number of children, languages spoken, ethnicity, religious background, education level, occupation, annual income

1925 DUNHILL MADE IN ENGLAND LONDON on one side INNER TUBE English is a second language to one in 13: More than 100 dialects are spoken by large numbers of people in the UK.

Born without memory of his past life (the title is the film's first puzzle, as it is really not so much a search for «Bourne's» identity as it is an examination of an identity at birth), Bourne finds himself oddly proficient in self - defence, preternaturally aware of his surroundings, and possessed of a Swiss bank account number (via the laser projector) leading to a safety deposit box full of enough passports and foreign currency to match his ability to speak several languages.

She teaches at several universities, is a certified translator, speaks a number of languages fluently and has travelled extensively.

«Specifically, after we equate for socioeconomic status, we find that the sheer number of words spoken by an adult was not related to children's neural processing of language, but that the number of conversational turns was,» says Romeo.

«It's hard to keep track year to year of the number of languages, said Punyon, but we usually have students speaking Chinese, Vietnamese, Spanish, Cambodian, Lao, Mien, Hmong, Amharic, Tigrinya, Somali, Oromo, Tagalog, Cambodian, and Cham.

«Why don't we make that 5,000 children in our schools over the next five years... learning a language that is becoming a great international language, rather than, frankly, languages that are not spoken by very large numbers of people?

- Fun games to get the students to speak in the target language (see explanation under the slide)- A listening activity on what you saw and did not see at the zoo - Vocabulary slides with lovely pictures - Plenty of mini-whiteboard games on colours with animals and on opinions about animals - Grammar explanation on negative forms and verbs of opinion - Several writing activities about your favorite restaurant - Survey activity on likes and dislikes - Translation exercises - A writing activity to use longer sentences and verbs of opinion + infinitive - Grammar explanation on the partitive with worksheets to practice - Grammar explanation on infinitives and conjugating - er verbs - A lesson on infinitives and how to conjugate - er verbs - A worksheet explaining the steps of conjugating an - er verb - A fun mime the verb game - A mini-whiteboard game to practise conjugating - er verbs - Grammar explanation on numbers and quantities - Learn high numbers to be able to give prices and quantities - Mini-whiteboard activities about numbers and quantities - Games with prices - Dialogue worksheets to build up to role - play activity - A number worksheet - Put the dialogue back in order worksheet to help with role - play activity - A grammar explanation of «il y a» and «il n» y a pas» - Grammar explanation «on peut + infinitive» and other grammar revision - A song with lyrics created and sang by me with a link to the Youtube video - Vocabulary building activities to teach directions - A grammar explanation on the imperative with exercises to practice - A grammar worksheet on the imperative in French - An iPhone activity - A grammar explanation on modal verbs - A grammar explanation of prepositions with «de» and exercises to practice - A grammar worksheet on prepositions in French I hope you will enjoy my resources and if you have a question on a particular slide or activity, please do not hesitate to contact me or leave me a message.

Information packs include facts about the country, its location, geography, modern history, ancient history, climate, general information, famous people and inventions etc Display • Photo packs for each country • Country names flashcards, key word flashcards, food flashcards, population statistics poster, A4 flags Maps and Activities • Maps of each country, Scandinavia, the Arctic circle, Europe, the world, continents, map jigsaw, maps to colour, matching cards, flag activities, Language (As Swedish is the most common language spoken across Scandinavia resources are included in this languages) • Number flashcards from 1 - 20 in Swedish • Days of the week in English and Swedish flashcards • Months of the year flashcards in English and Swedish • Common phrases cards — in English and Swedish • Colour flashcards in Swedish • A4 speech bubbles showing «hello» in each Scandinavian language Activities • Themed writing paper with flags to frame pupils work • Writing activities, drawing activities, make a presentation, research note pad, place mat, reward chart, word search, quiz, etc Borders, Banners and Buntings • Extra large lettering spelling «SCANDINAVIA» • Long banners for each country name, buntings with names • patterned and plain display borders and packing paper if needed

Developmental programs generally involve teaching equal numbers of English - speaking and limited - English - proficient students in both English and the LEP students» native language.

The number of students who are aware of school cliques based on any of the following: academic ability, athletic ability, beliefs, ethnicity, family income, gender, hobbies / interests, home neighborhood, primary language spoken, musical interest, personal appearance, race, sexual orientation, and / or style.

The number of students who have ever been part of a group that rejected others, based on academic ability, athletic ability, beliefs, ethnicity, family income, gender, hobbies / interests, home neighborhood, primary language spoken, musical interest, personal appearance, race, sexual orientation, or style.

The number of students who have felt unwelcome or rejected by a particular group because of their academic ability, athletic ability, beliefs, ethnicity, family income, gender, hobbies / interests, home neighborhood, primary language spoken, musical interest, personal appearance, race, sexual orientation, or style.

Schools throughout the country include growing numbers of children who do not speak English as their first language.

Furthermore, schools continue to see an increase in the number of children who speak a language other than English at home.

Although Berkeley's student assignment plan allows parents to rank - order their first - choice, second - choice, and third - choice schools, it considers a number of factors in the actual assignment process, including the parent's level of education, income, and primary language spoken at home.

The Families of Schools database is a free tool that groups similar schools together on factors including prior attainment, percentage of pupils eligible for free school meals and the number of children who speak English as an additional language.

The school serves a disadvantaged community where there are above average numbers of pupils with special educational needs and who speak English as a second language, and many experience challenging circumstances at home.

Every academic year, each school is assessed and ranked by the number of students speaking a given language.

One of the saddest things about adult illiteracy and ESL language learners is not the staggering rates of adults who are still classified as functionally illiterate, or the numbers of immigrants who may learn to speak a language with some level of comfort and fluency but never develop basic reading skills; it's the... [Read more...]

One of the saddest things about adult illiteracy and ESL language learners is not the staggering rates of adults who are still classified as functionally illiterate, or the numbers of immigrants who may learn to speak a language with some level of comfort and fluency but never develop basic reading skills; it's the quality — or lack thereof — of instructional materials for adult learners.