Sentences with phrase «same mother tongue»
Finding a suitable partner is tough enough; finding one who shares the same mother tongue is even harder.
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The intelligence that one's runaway daughter had given her life to Christ, been baptized in a bathtub, and taken up residence with a bunch of barefoot, long - haired, guitar - strumming, tongues - speaking twenty - year - olds in a place called Maranatha House was only marginally less disturbing to the average Methodist mother than the news that the same daughter had moved in with a professional tabla drummer and changed her name to Windflower.
Similarly, a person whose objective is to acquire a sense for a particular historical period and a person whose objective is to savor a skilled writer's use of the mother tongue will have to bring somewhat different sets of abilities to a historical novel; they will have different understandings of the same novel.
Especially if their mother tongue is the same, they could communicate better.
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.
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.
There is Alice, the matriarch with a sharp tongue and a painful secret; Kathleen, her reformed alcoholic daughter with a worm farm in California (who wouldn't be caught dead in the same room as her mother); Ann Marie, the «little miss perfect» daughter - in - law who has a few secrets of her own; and Maggie, the only daughter of Kathleen, who has recently become pregnant — at the same time she realizes her boyfriend is a jerk.