Sentences with phrase «speak in a language they understand»

We must learn to meet others on their terms and speak in a language they understand.

It's called «canine communication» and most dogs will do what we want them to do, if we also communicate in a canine way and speak in a language they understand.

Not exact matches

King frequently spoke in household financial terms, language that everyone understood, so that his message could be absorbed more broadly.

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Marie is that mentor we've been wishing for who spoke our language, understands our struggles & gives sound advice that we can apply without even knowing us in person!

Before they can understand the messages in the Bible (or any written or spoken thought), children must learn to understand language, but they do not need to understand words to feel and express love.

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When Gadamer stressed «the linguisticality of all understanding» he was extending hermeneutics beyond its traditional purview (works, art, people) to all otherness: to all that can address us through language, all that has the power to speak in conceptual form.

Unless we truly understand that viewpoint, and speak in terms the secular mind can understand, our words will have the quaint and useless ring of a foreign language.

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.

But now I admit to be speaking in the language of natural philosophy, that old - fashioned way of understanding reality which quickly faded into the intellectual shadows after the arrival of the new knowledge of Galileo and Newton.

Ok, let me try speaking to «just sayin» in language he'll understand better... HERP DERP; DERP; HERPA DERP DERP.

He now speaks either through using a computer with a mechanised voice, or in language that Emma is able to understand.

Whoever wants to be understood is constrained to speak in accordance with the practices of the language community to which he belongs.

But on 22 October 1978 the new Pope - «from a far country» as he described himself - spoke directly to the crowd, saying that he hoped he made himself understood «in your - in our - Italian language» adding, to huge cheer, «if I make a mistake, correct me!»

One possibility is that we are simply using this current language to speak of the importance of the church's developing its doctrine of nature more fully and in ways appropriate to our new understanding of the relation between human beings and the natural world.

Second: to say that this particular book is true is to say that we can trust it, trust it as a guide to faith and life which provides not only specific claims about God's faithfulness and how we ought to live our lives in response to it, but also a way of understanding the whole world and a language in which to speak about that world.

And so, if we moderns are to share in the blessings of which the New Testament speaks, we need the help of someone who understands the language of mythology and can translate it into a language with which the modern world is familiar.

As it becomes aware of the specific form in which ultimate human problems present themselves in our own time, the ministry, and therewith the schools that prepare men for it, begin to understand more sharply what the pastoral function is, in what language the gospel speaks to this need, and what form the Church must take in serving such men in such a time.

Their altar «TO AN UNKNOWN GOD» gives him a perfect platform to speak in a language the people understand, and on a subject that they find interesting.

The project has two subjects, Koko and Michael, who have learned to use American Sign Language (Ameslan), to understand spoken English, and to read printed words.10 Koko's instruction, begun in 1973, is the longest ongoing language study of an ape, and the only one with continuous instruction by the same teacher.

Bishop Paulose was one of the few church leaders who spoke in a language that was understood by all.

How in the world are we supposed to understand any people of another part of the world if we can't do more to understand a group right here in the USA who speak our language and who are open for dialog.

I noticed that my cousins spoke English with a distinct German accent and that in moments of excitement they would often unconsciously switch from English to German - though, noticing my bafflement and out of deference to my odd inability to speak or understand the language, they would quickly switch back to English.

- sometimes we (the Church) don't really understand how to practically speak to friends apart from God in a language that is both relevant and encouraging.

The secret of his success was that he spoke a metaphorical language that was commonly understood in antiquity: Christ, he said, had given himself up for us «as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.»

And even the truths in it are from ancient languages that have long ago lost their meaning??? If you get strength from the Bible that's really great, but understand that one size does not fit all, and therefor there is indeed a need for a decoder ring when speaking «religious»..

Paul says that «Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up» (1 Cor 8:1) and later that even if we have all knowledge, and understand all mysteries, and can speak in other languages, but have not love, all that knowledge is nothing (1 Cor 13:1 - 3).

We are at present calling attention to the return by certain philosophers to primitive understandings of the spoken word in order to revive language smothered under the small heading of verificational analysis.

In the bible, gift of tongues was for purpose of allowing foreigners to understand what was being said, so I've always thought my daughter has the gift of tongues as she speaks several languages fluently and understands even more.

So, when you vaguely tell me something from some textbook, you will understand that I will be wanting to speak from primary sources, as they are all available and voluminous and are currently read all over the world in many languages.

In other posts you said I could not understand because I did not speak multiple languages, then it was because I did not understand Greek translation and now it's because I don't think like a Jew.

Whether you were for or against U.S. military intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan, you had to admit that in each case Americans went into a country whose language they did not speak and whose culture they did not understand.

As theologian Lucien Richards says, «He had to speak a language they could understand, perform actions they would find intelligible, and conduct his life and undergo his death in a manner of which they could make some sense.»

You're one of those «Jesus spoke in KJV language» people, and don't understand the importance of the Greek language to your own religion, in spite of the fact that Jesus, if he existed at all, spoke Aramaic and not Greek...)

He speaks to them in a language they understand and is living proof that GLBTQ folk can be celibate, saved, and content with their lives.

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.

In order to understand language we must perform a series of quantum jumps, so to speak, from one level of the speech hierarchy to the next higher one: phonemes are meaningless and can only be interpreted on the level of morphemes, words must be referred to context, sentences to a larger frame of reference.

Chances are you have a super big meeting with a «big guy» from your company, who ironically isn't a big guy at all, but a 4» 2 man in his late 50's who has an ego the size of Jupiter and speaks 5 different languages, all of which you can't understand.

You don't have to speak the language to understand everything that's happening, and while I wouldn't want a full 60 minutes of that every week, I can appreciate that kind of visual storytelling in small doses.

Here you can see that they said «MAY BE» and «COULD BE» which, to my understanding of the English language, implies that they are speaking in conjecture.

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And as the former Chair of the Education Committee, Flanagan can speak to teachers in a language they understand.

«Being able to speak and read in a different language, and understand a different culture, is a game - changer for our kids,» Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña said.

He explained that the President should have spoken in English, the official language of the country, adding that it was only English that the entire Nigeria would be able to hear and understand if he was the person who spoke.

«We found that the lower the ability of adolescents to understand spoken language, the more likely they would report having difficulties in these areas,» says Professor Conti - Ramsden.

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.

In college, Shore, who has autism, began to wonder if women spoke a language he didn't understand.