Sentences with phrase «spoken first language»

«Numerous studies have found speaking more than one language can enhance academic performance, so we would encourage parents to continue speaking their first language with their children.

The accomplishments that have earned Match such recognition are even more impressive in light of the students the school serves: in the 2012 — 13 school year, 76 percent of Match High School's student population was classified as low - income, 93 percent of students were black or Hispanic, and 20 percent spoke a first language other than English.

The distinguishing factor between these two cases seems to be that in Dhamrait the claimants were able to show an inability to express themselves because they were being suppressed from speaking their first language, instead of a language that was neither their first language nor one they even spoke at a high level like in Saadi.

And so nice that someone who speaks his first language will be near to help all of you if you need it.

Not exact matches

«Bands always, always hire by values first and once the person looks right, feels right, speaks the same language, then he's allowed to get up and jam with the band,» he says.

I don't mean this literally: The «from» line might still be your company's name, but the content should feel as if it comes from a human being, speaking in the first person (using «I» or «we» and addressing the recipient as «you»), with natural - sounding language.

Burger King's mysterious mascot spoke for the first time this week - through sign language — to ask fans to dream up a Whopper sign.

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).

They were littered with poor grammar, obviously written by someone who doesn't speak English as a first language, stuffed with unnecessary over-use of keywords, and provided no useful or insightful information.

Go up and watch the first clip on Malcolm X, seems that you extremist seem to speak the same language.

One of the great privileges of parenthood is walking with our children in prayer, I think, because we give them their first language for how they speak with God.

His support for the unborn resonated with Americans fighting the consequences of Roe v. Wade: The right to life movement received a new language and dimension when he first spoke about a «Culture of Life» in 1993 — significantly, during a visit to America — and two years later, described his full vision in his great encyclical, Evangelum Vitae.

But power had and still has no ear for truth, so God spoke to Egypt's powerful in the language of power, and the first - born in Egypt died.

Where the philosopher guesses and argues, the mystic lives and looks; and speaks, consequently, the disconcerting language of first - hand experience, not the neat dialectic of the schools.

Although he does not speak specifically of prototaxic, parataxic, and syntaxic modes of experience, the same sequential patterns are reflected in his description of the first cycle of intellectual progress, which runs «from the achievement of perception to the acquirement of language, and from the acquirement of language to classified thought and keener perception» (AE 31).

The tasks of infancy are first to learn the differentiation of objects; second to master spoken language; and third, to be able to use that language for a classified and enlarged enjoyment of objects (see, AE 31).

Although this may be the first generation where all the bishops speak English, for around half of them, it's not their first language.

Looking at this side of the ambiguity, we see a church in which many first - world Christians of our day could feel comfortable and undisturbed: a church that lives without question or resistance in a state founded on violence and made prosperous by the exploitation of less fortunate nations; a church that accepts various perquisites from that state as its due; a church where changing jobs for the sake of peace and justice is seldom considered; a church that constantly speaks in the language of war; a church given to eloquent invective in its internal disputes and against outside opponents; a church quite sure that God will punish the wicked.

Every human experience of language grasps it as repetition: no one would speak if those who gave him birth did not speak to him first.»

There is nothing remotely similar for English - speaking Christians, and without it people lacking command of classical languages and access to university libraries have no first - hand knowledge of the past.

Their children would be Americans, and they did not teach us the German that had been their own first language but which they now spoke only when they wanted to keep things from us.

Seeing their mad enterprise, God was not minded to exterminate them utterly, because even the destruction of the first victims had not taught their descendants wisdom; but He created discord among them by making them speak different languages, through the variety of which they could not understand one another.

2) I was listening to Greg Boyd teach via podcast the other day, and he was speaking on the use of gender language in the first century.

Like most Pentecostals, I believe that speaking in tongues is first and foremost a prayer language, a language of adoration and worship and intercession, between us and God.

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 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.

Christian acquiescence in this fate can be measured in any number of ways: by the extent to which the Church renounces her inherent «platonism,» thinking and speaking in the language of psychology, sociology, economics, and politics rather than philosophy (metaphysics) and theology; by the tendency to view the Church not first as sacrament transcending political order, but as a mere mediating institution within that order; by the «political» or «clerical» temptation to equate true ecclesial reform with institutional or curial reform.

He says «The fact proves first of all, that not one of the scores of dialects spoken by India in the first century has been found fit to be raised to the dignity of a sacred language in which the message of the Gospel could be expressed with dignity and aptitude; it proves also that the Indian Christians were satisfied for the upkeep of their spiritual life with the use of a language which their esteemed migrants had made familiar to them.»

She was born in this country, speaks English as her first language, loves football, holds a British passport and was christened in a church.»

It is almost as if he wanted to find a way back again to the experience of the child's first amazement before the mystery of the world and to linger there forever, speaking a language of pure naming, pure invocation — the language of Adam or of the natural poet.

The first remark that he is led to make is that the World «speaks» or «reveals itself» through symbols, not, however, in a utilitarian and objective language.

If Isaiah 9:2 - 7 and / or 11:1 - 9 are oracles of Isaiah of Jerusalem in the eighth century, then it is Isaiah who first among the prophets speaks out in strong eschatological language.

There is a difference of opinion among scholars as to whether the gospels may not have been first written in Aramaic, the language which Jesus and his disciples and the people of Palestine at that time generally spoke as their native tongue.

First off, sauerkraut — you are speaking my love language!.

For the first three weeks of our language tutoring we were only allowed to listen to our teacher speaking Chinese.

I'll admit that when I first took the decision, I still cared very much about what people think of me; and when people questioned my decision to give up my job at the bank and uproot from Singapore to live in a country whose language I couldn't speak, or where I didn't have a job waiting for me, I found myself fighting internally with these comments.

And even if some of the foods seem strange at first sight, with labels printed in the Korean language, I can usually find an English translation somewhere on the package, or ask an English - speaking employee or customer for help.

You all saw how he tried to make (even though he doesn't speak the language) all the Arsenal players to press Everton in the first half.

While babies may not speak their first word for a year, they are born ready to communicate with a rich vocabulary of body movements, cries and visual responses: all part of the complex language of infant behavior.

Believe it or not, by the time babies reach their first birthday they will have learned all the sounds needed to speak their native language.

This mirrors the shift in language in breastfeeding first popularized by Diane Wiessinger, suggesting that rather than referring to the benefits of breastfeeding, we should speak in terms of the risks of not breastfeeding.

For a meeting of chance and at first not even speaking a common language, we were determined to figure out a way to make things work.

This year has been a year of great independence — Tyler began first grade, joined the French Immersion Program that requires him to complete his homework independently, speaks a language that neither of his parents understand, runs around the neighborhood alone calling for friends, plays independently at home with his sibling and peers, and generally has a whole life at school and on the playing field that feels mostly separate from his father and me.

This ability to grasp spoken language — a skill experts dub «receptive language» — is the first crucial step toward the gift of gab.

First, the good news: There are so many more Spanish - language books available in non-Spanish speaking countries than ever before.

But it was the internet fundraising that first caught campaign professionals» attention, since it spoke a far older political language: money.

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.

Nolan at one point noted that Farina is the «first bilingual chancellor» for city schools, a point Arroyo argued, saying there had been six chancellors who spoke multiple languages.

Heck, even Yiddish (leaving aside that most of them spoke fluent German in the first place) was German - based language, linguistically.

Chairman Reda encouraged me to use my language skills to conduct the very first Tele Town Hall in Spanish and to go on a local Haitian TV program speaking in French.