Sentences with phrase «on mother tongue»

When completing the census question on mother tongue, Canadians reported over 200 languages.

Most practical teachers of EFL feel that when learners fall back on their mother tongue to help create the second language system, that is a necessity, not a mistake.

Several clues, like the fact that many of the cortical auditory regions responsible for linguistic and musical processing are the same and the existence of auditory illusions dependent on the mother tongue or dialect, have led investigators to hypothesize that native listening transfers also to non-linguistic sound stimuli such as music.

Not exact matches

His teaching was both unsystematic and vivid, and when he spoke about the Eucharist I remember he urged us to receive Communion on the tongue — because, he said, we should be as docile and receptive as children being fed by their mother.

I've already been to Communion with my mother and I know people kneel here in great long lines to drink their grape juice from tiny glasses like eyecups, and taste the strange flat wafers, little circular discs that vanish on the tongue.

There's at least one cast member I won't have to miss, because the fantastically talented DJ Mendel is going to be directing my solo show, Mother Tongue, on February 6 and 7 at The Brick in Williamsburg.

I'm off to Edinburgh, like, now, to perform my solo show Mother Tongue at the Fringe Fest - the biggest arts festival on the planet.

Make sure the mother is getting AWESOME LACTATION SUPPORT AND GUIDANCE which includes a thorough history taking, a full oral assessment of the baby to rule out tongue tie, a detailed plan (short term and long term) for the mother and baby on where to go from here which includes different options.

You'll find sections on piercing, breast surgery, d - mer (a condition where mothers have a short, sudden emotional dip during a milk ejection reflex), tongue - tie including pictures of lesser - known types, depression, and much more, along with resources for further information on each topic.

As my mother couldn't see anything on my tongue, she assumed I was trying to get out of eating the fruit.

Health - care providers report increasing numbers of breastfeeding mothers self - diagnosing tongue and lip ties in their babies, often based on online information, and asking for a tongue - or lip - tie revision, a minor office procedure to release the tie.

When mothers focus only on tongue or lip tie, other issues may be overlooked and problems can continue for weeks or months.

Chua's book was a somewhat tongue - in - cheek memoir of her experiences raising her two daughters with her (non-Asian) husband, which involved hours of forced music practice every day, severe restrictions on extracurriculars, outright bans on social activities like sleepovers, and punishment and shaming on the rare occasions her children failed to attain their mother's high expectations.

Basically, the tongue must be down and roll forward in order to latch on properly to the mother's breast.

Conventional wisdom holds that language acquisition in adulthood can not rest on the same brain mechanisms used in processing a native languagethat is, a language learned later in life is processed in a fundamentally different and less automatic way than is a mother tongue.

Working back to the ancestor, an exercise based on the sequence of DNA letters in genes, resembles the way that linguists reconstruct the words of vanished mother - tongues from their living descendant languages.

As Samantha's sharp - tongued mother on the 1960s sitcom Bewitched, Endora's makeup game was on point with her signature electric blue eyeshadow, graphic liner, and contrasting red lip.

As the tongue - in - cheek spy show embarks on its fifth and final season, «Chuck: The Complete Fourth Season» (Warner) catches you up with the adventures of amiable nerd turned super-spy Chuck Bartowski (Zachary Levi), who spends the season looking for his mother (guest star Linda Hamilton), who also happens to be a spy and may be working for the other side.

Heavy on Spanish language films (including a Brazilian film not in its mother tongue) and the usual block of French film items, after seven years as Artistic Director, Edouard Waintrop leaves the Directors» Fortnight (the section that gave us The Florida Project and a Claire Denis comedy in 2017) with what appears to be a program of genre - friendly firecracker line - up items.

«I, Tonya,» the Craig Gillespie - directed biopic about Tonya Harding, the figure skater banned from competition for life for her connection to a 1994 attack on fellow skater Nancy Kerrigan, has brought its stars — Margot Robbie, who plays an unsinkable Harding, and Allison Janney, as her sharp - tongued mother, LaVona — Oscar nominations, critical acclaim and, not surprisingly, a newfound love for the Winter Olympics.

The praise was largely glowing for Janney's turn as Tonya Harding's mother, LaVona Golden, a harridan with a sharp tongue and, at times, a parakeet on her shoulder.

Raised by an acid - tongued single mother (Allison Janney — much more on her later) in a part of Portland, Oregon that's more Winter's Bone than Portlandia, Tonya says from the start she's a redneck, and proud of it.

Split your class in two groups, the first student of group A has to describe the word on the card - he / she is neither allowed to talk any word in her mother tongue nor to say one of the words below the pictures.

Join the countries of Europe in celebrating the thousands of languages spoken worldwide on 26 September and take the opportunity to encourage students to speak languages other than their mother tongue.

This is also reflected in Nepal, with its particular focus on ensuring teachers promote «equity and social inclusion'through mother tongue instruction policies in local communities.

He was the project manager for the development of the Inter-ED software, a multi-lingual (11 Official Languages) software solution for foundation - phase learners focusing on Literacy, Numeracy and Life Skills which provided learners, irrespective of their language and socio - economic background, the opportunity of being taught in their mother tongue during the foundation phase.

When stuck on a grammar point, search on the grammar term to provide explanations in learners» mother tongue (s).

And in «Threepence, Great Britain, 1943,» she creates a biography of her mother in immaculately composed tercets, revealing how Renee's «mum went funny, / Locked up and electroshocked, clamped down / On a bit to save her tongue.»

Antibiotics help reduce foul - smelling infections and using a sponge dampened with a very dilute solution of lemon juice and hydrogen peroxide (to mimic the gentle stroking action on of a «mothers tongue on the face and paws and legs) helps soothe and clean cats» fur.

The mother tongue of 400 million people, an official language on four continents and the fourth most commonly spoken language in the world, Spanish boasts huge global importance.

While he is a native Spanish speaker he may not need his mother tongue on the job, as Belize is the only country in Central America where English is the official language.

We can all comfortably listen to our favorite characters waffle on in our mother tongues!

The mother tongue (A) of the actors and on the other hand the acting to the script (B).

In case you don't know TED 2009 is going on in California: TreeHugger's own Graham Hill is in attendance, but one thing which caught my eye from the other side of the country was a slideshow on how to grow you own fresh air, using only three indoor plants: the Areca Palm, Mother - in - Law's Tongue (an unfortunately named plant if there every was one), and the Money Plant: After studying the effects these plants had on air quality for the past 15 years in a building in New Delhi, India it was found that there was a 42 % probability of increasing blood oxygen by 1 % simply by being in the building for one hour.

Last year, after posting an article on Facebook about Ol - Chiki, the standard script used to write Santhali, his mother tongue, the 34 - year - old author was bullied on the site by the supporters of the Roman script for Santhali.

- Must reflect the company values: Passion, Creativity, Straight talking - Switched on and energetic, able to perform well within a fast - paced environment - Graduate degree 2.1 or above from well - respected university - Good grasp on the latest technology and / or eager to learn more - A good communicator, English fluent or mother tongue - Have shown «that bit extra»; worked alongside degree, sport success, high level hobby - Can take responsibility for failings and successes - Positivity = a must!

In the Utopia homelands, high value is placed on the maintenance of strong mother tongue languages and traditional cultural practices.