Sentences with phrase «speaking in a foreign language»

In her own research Ratcliffe found that dogs could distinguish between male and female voices and could even detect the intonation of a sentence spoken in a foreign language.

Many lines of dialogue are spoken in foreign languages with English subtitles.

Several lines of dialogue are spoken in a foreign language with no subtitles and a couple are in French and are translated into English.

When you cross-translate, you think in your native language while trying to speak in a foreign language.

How she'd begun to speak in a foreign language.

It's like someone speaking in a foreign language.

Reading, writing, listening to and speaking in a foreign language.

Can you use the concepts and language of video games to understand and communicate with them, or are you sitting in your play therapy sessions, feeling as though they are speaking in a foreign language, thinking in unknown concepts, doing things you have no possibility of understanding?

Not exact matches

Think of it like becoming fluent in a foreign language — you have to practice speaking the language before it becomes automatic.

The brothers began speaking to each other in a foreign language.

Foster Innovation Different practices that arise from having lived in a foreign country or speaking a foreign language or practicing a certain religion can lead to innovative products like Nike's new «Pro Hijab», a lightweight, breathable headcover for female Muslim athletes.

If you keep your voice at a level volume when speaking normally, you will likely blend in much better than if you are calling in a foreign language down the street for someone else.

You do have to tap the earbud and ask Google to translate, but then you have to open up the Google Translate app and hold your phone in front of your foreign language - speaking friend.

Based on the above, UKTI commissioned the ECR program in combination with the PIB service to, among other things, allow companies to employ foreign - language - speaking students at U.K. universities and other British institutions of higher learning to address issues related to language and cultural barriers that companies may face in entering particular foreign markets.

And I recently came across new research showing that people speak with more fluency in a foreign language when they've been drinking, which is a bit more counterintuitive, since speaking in a nonnative tongue obviously requires focus.

Social Entrepreneur Doron Libshtein, a former Microsoft MSFT -1.2 % executive, speaks a language that sounds downright foreign in a business context, but his current crowdfunding campaign has raised over $ 100,000, suggesting he's tapping into something real.

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.

I have not seen the actual words before, but based upon the language quoted, seems to me that the «tongues» part means you'll learn foreign languages (as in not the one from the area you grew up in), not you'll make up gibberish or speak in some alien (as in not of this workd) language.

Obama, Perry, Romney are NOT what this country needs unless you WANT OPEN BORDERS and you like living with 3rd world peasants in your neighborhoods speaking 3rd world foreign languages.

With more thorough preparation in foreign language, both written and spoken, American students will be in a better position to learn effectively from travel and residence abroad as part of their educational preparation.

The only circulation increases in foreign - language publications are in papers published for recent immigrant groups, like the Spanish - speaking.

Luke's presentation of speaking in tongues as speaking real foreign languages confirmed the missionary thrust of life in the Spirit.

At Acts 10:46, Luke used a variation of the same expressions found in 2:11 alongside «speaking in tongues,» so that prophesying in a foreign language is most probably meant again.46 Peter's companions from Joppa in a multilingual society would presumably have recognized other languages than their own.

Researchers have found that babies also prefer when mom speaks in her native language to someone else speaking in a foreign tongue.

However it seems that, despite those measures, Italian largely supplanted French as a spoken language in Aosta valley to the point that some young people see French as an annoyance, or at best they'll speak it like a foreign, taught language.

Then there are the foreign students — all those young Chinese and Koreans studying at Central St Martin's University of the Arts in King's Cross, the European students on Erasmus exchange programmes around the country (doubly bad no doubt in Mr Farage's eyes since it's an EU scheme, that also sends Britons to the Continent, where they might too pick up the habit of speaking these foreign languages), the students from the Indian sub-continent studying engineering and computer science, students from around the globe trying to acquire or improve their grasp of the English language that can be their passport to a good job wherever in the globe they come from.

It comes as new plans were revealed to strip benefits from anyone who can not speak English, with separate efforts to end the printing of welfare information in foreign languages.

Parents speaking a foreign language to their children have received horrible comments at bus stops, in supermarkets and in parks.

Today we inhabit a society in which prejudice, fear and hatred of foreigners increasingly erodes logic, morality and even national self - interest; where MPs are targeted; where judges are described as enemies of the people, where a foreign woman who insists on the primacy of parliament is subject to racist abuse and rape and death threats, where you can be verbally and physically attacked if you speak a foreign language in the street or simply happen to look foreign.

Carvin is also touting his background in business and his experience living in several foreign countries and being able to speak four languages will help him bring a more global perspective to Capitol Hill.

The Republican presidential candidate seemed to be talking in a foreign language, politically speaking, during what should have been a largely ceremonial first leg of his I - am - ready - to - be-president European tour.

In the experiment, 9.5 - month - old babies from English - speaking households attended foreign language tutoring sessions.

Bear in mind, if working in Brussels appeals, that speaking two or more foreign languages is becoming more and more important to qualify for jobs in the European Commission.

I also long to speak a foreign language fluently, and I was hoping my job would send me on overseas trips, but the farthest I have traveled in three years is London.

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

And Keysar is interested in looking at whether language can be usefully considered in decisions made by doctors speaking a foreign language.

Imagine if every conversation you had was like speaking with someone in a foreign language that you only partially understood.

At that time, I was one to turn to antibiotics if I got sick, but that wasn't an option in a foreign country where I didn't speak the language and definitely couldn't navigate the medical system, so I took the nasty tasting tincture that he offered.

It seems speaking more than 2 languages provides a protective effect on memory in elderly people who practice foreign languages throughout their life time or during the time of the research.

I live up here in Canada now but you're on that other side of the country where they speak foreign languages and stuff.

Unlike speaking a foreign language in other European countries, learning and speaking just a few key phrases in Italian can delight even the grumpiest of shop owners.

Traditionally, Ukrainian women get a good education: they are capable of keeping the conversation going, speak foreign languages and tend to find a job in their new homeland quite easily.

Being an expat in a foreign country where you don't speak the language is hard at the best of times.

I have been working in the Russian - Ukrainian dating industry since 1999, and before that I went through the process of meeting a foreign partner myself, moved to a new country, and started a family with the man from a different culture who spoke another language.

Though the English language is the most common foreign language taught in Russian schools, not many women can speak it fluently.

Zemeckis has apparently determined that audiences will no longer support the fiction that a group of foreign - language characters all speak to each other in English, so he's forced to invent all sorts of pretexts for Petit to speak primarily in the language of Hollywood: he's going to New York so he must practice; Annie speaks good English, so she's happy to establish their relationship in that language.

^ I can only speak about Germany, but in my country foreign language movies are not subtitled, but synchronized.

As we talk we find mutual ground in Christina Hendricks adoration («the perfect woman,» he says) but elsewhere it's like he's speaking a foreign language and I don't mean Danish.

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.