Sentences with phrase «speak in my second language»

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This rising tide of connectedness in the world suddenly means that if you're an English - language publisher, there are hundreds of millions of people around the world where people speak English as a second language.

Researchers found that young adults proficient in two languages performed better on attention tests and had better concentration than those who spoke only one language, irrespective of whether they had learned that second language during infancy, childhood or their teen years.

They originally differed also in language, since the first spoke Spanish or Ladino (a fifteenth - century Spanish), the second German, and the third Yiddish (an alloy of Hebrew and German).

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.

Though Robert Bellah and his coauthors found that the «first language» of Americans is the discourse of individualism, they also heard Americans across the country speaking communitarian «second languages,» languages of «tradition and commitment in communities of memory.»

I know plenty of folks that speak English as a second language, and they do a great job, in part because they have to (living in the US or UK), but practically everyone I met in the Netherlands was brilliant.

Maybe I'm totally wrong, I've never tried to speak fluently in a second language but I'd think it takes nothing but tons of tons of practice.

Like learning any second language, it takes practice and you have to start speaking before you are perfect, but with time and effort, you can be fluent in Parenting, relating to your kids with a deep and meaningful connection.

Boys» language skills may develop at a slower rate, and many children don't speak much at all during their second year, but in general, you can expect your child to begin to master the ability to:

If your child spends a lot of time with his best buddy, whose family speaks both Spanish and English, your child may become just as comfortable identifying favorite foods or offering simple greetings in a second language as he does in his native English.

Student speakers included an adult education student from CUNY who said she was speaking to the crowd for the first time in English, her second language.

English is also widely spoken as a close - to - bilingual second language in Cyprus.

English is the second language spoken by most people in all but five European Union countries.

She believes her ability to speak a second language was a huge help in getting her first assignment, in French - speaking Morocco, through the Peace Corps.

The largest urban health systems, which serve as safety nets for large patient populations with lower socioeconomic status and greater likelihood to speak English as a second language, do worse on government patient satisfaction scores than smaller, non-urban hospitals likely to serve white customers with higher education levels, according to a new study by Mount Sinai researchers published this month in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.

Within months of living in a foreign country, a young child may speak a second language like a native speaker.

Speakers of Eskimo - Aleut languages, found in the Aleutian Islands and Greenland, inherit almost half their genes from the second wave, while the Na - Dene - speaking Chipewyan in central Canada inherit around a tenth of their genes from a third wave — although all groups can claim to have «first American» DNA (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature11258).

Extrovert Chinese students learning English as a second language are likely to perform better in speaking and reading, but less proficient in listening than their introvert counterparts, according to a study published in Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (JSSH).

«About one sixth of all people in the U.S. birthplace of Scientific American speak Spanish as a first or second language, and globally, it is spoken by more than 500 million,» says Scientific American editor in chief Mariette DiChristina.

Even in France, which has only one official language and is immensely proud of its linguistic heritage, most people speak a second language.

It doesn't matter whether you are brought up in a bilingual household or learn a second language later in life, speaking more than one language improves cognitive function across the board, from planning and working memory to concentration and multitasking.

Given the general cognitive benefits of speaking a second language, a decline in language teaching will likely mean a decline in education attainment across the board.

Findings published in Annals of Neurology, a journal of the American Neurological Association and Child Neurology Society, show that individuals who speak two or more languages, even those who acquired the second language in adulthood, may slow down cognitive decline from aging.

Interestingly, a similar study found that an increase in gray matter was also found for those whose second language was not a spoken one, such as American Sign Language.

I have had a man lie about speaking a second language (which turns out to be my second language, he later changed this on his profile ha ha) and another who assured me in our initial conversation that I could trust him and he would never hurt me (did I mention I was concerned about that?

But those languages didn't come out on top in an analysis of dating behavior in the US that found the ability to speak a second language other than English appears to make people vastly more attractive to the opposite sex — and also that your second tongue of choice matters.

English is the primary language in the U.S. and Australia, and many Europeans speak it as a second language.

The ability to speak a second language isn't the only thing that distinguishes bilingual people from their monolingual counterparts — their brains work Chief Architect and Vice President of Innovation, Phill Lawson - Shanks, to Present at The 6th Annual Provider Forum on Financing & Investing in Data Centers

Many Russian women can speak and understand English, it is often the second language taught at school in Russia.

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Filmed entirely in Spanish despite Farhadi being unable to speak the language, Everybody Knows is only the second Spanish language film ever to open the festival, following in the footsteps of Pedro Almodóvar's Bad Education all the way back in 2004.

According to Jim Cummins, professor emeritus at the University of Toronto, children's levels of performance in a second language depend on their ability to speak their native tongue.

The push for bilingualism often comes from English - speaking parents who live in affluent suburban communities and want their children to learn a second language, according to Education Trust - West.

«We have a persistent achievement gap and the kids stuck in that gap are poor, they speak English as a second language, they have special needs.

In other words, should students from low - income families or families that speak English as second language be given some leeway when it comes to testing cut - off scores?

The challenge is particularly testing when it comes to «live» events such as webinars, online group discussions, and other activities where international students will have to speak - up in their second language while watched by people they do not know.

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.

The school has diversity of its own to draw on: Including those in the Bilingual Orientation Center, 27 percent of students at Stanford speak English as a second language, 28 percent qualify for free or reduced - cost lunch, and fewer than half the students are white.

At the John F. Kennedy Magnet School in Port Chester, New York, a school with a high ratio of students who speak English as a second language, bilingual workshops were offered to parents on the first day of school.

In pairs, students take turns speaking or interpreting this new language for 30 seconds each.

It centres around conflict and diversity and is suitable for PSHE, Citizenship, IGCSE English as a Second language Speaking and Writing Practice and general use in Assembly or Tutor Time.

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.

English - language speakers benefit from «extensive exposure to Spanish, accelerating their absorption and usage of the language to achieve early Spanish literacy; a highly academic curriculum, taught in a second language; the ability to transfer Spanish reading and writing skills to English language reading and writing after the second grade; the confidence to speak Spanish, resulting from the self - esteem and pride they gain because they are bilingual.»

Speaking time, for instance, is especially brief: ELL students spend, on average, fewer than 90 seconds per day in classroom talk.1 Acknowledging that some of their ELLs were not receiving necessary language practice during school hours, Lennox officials viewed after - school time as an opportunity to help some of their struggling students.

Standards of Welsh second language in many English - medium schools are improving, but most pupils lack confidence when speaking Welsh.

Meanwhile, the nation's second - largest school district — where students speak 94 languages — is closing in on meeting its goals for improving test scores for English learners and getting more of them to graduation.

You could be comparing a fully bilingual child, daughter of a German banker, with somebody who has just come from the Czech Republic with a Roma background, or a second or third generation child where another language is spoken in the house.»

The Milner School, where more than 40 percent of its students go home to households that don't use English as their primary language, will be turned over to a charter school company that has no non-English speaking students and absolutely no history, what so ever, in running English as a Second Language or English Language Learner programs.

In 2011, nearly 70,000 Michigan school children who speak English as a second language had to take a special test of their English language skills.

During a presentation in January on reading in a bilingual environment, Christophe Bonnet, head of school at the French American School of Rhode Island (FASRI), spoke about the benefits of «re-wiring» a child's brain prior to first grade so that a second language becomes intuitive and he or she doesn't recognize any transition.