Sentences with phrase «study other languages»

I also intend to continue to study other languages and expand my linguistic horizons.

By the way, Danish students take 6 years of English and study other languages as well.

Dominicans studied other languages, and other religions, in order to preach more effectively.

Not exact matches

Previous studies have offered some suggestions, however, including mirroring the body language of a conversational partner, matching others» walking speed, and simply smiling.

In recent years, a few fascinating studies at Harvard, Princeton and other top universities shed new light on body language and how to use it at work.

In a second study, published today (June 2) in the Annals of Neurology, Bak set out to determine if the positive effects of bilingualism on cognition could actually be the other way around: that people who have better cognitive functions are more likely to learn foreign languages.

If you study body language, you'll learn various elements of communication that might give you an indicator of what's going on with the other person.

The NAIC working group will study the language, among other aspects, of the DOL fiduciary rule standard, Nickel said.

After his death, a number of other books, dictionaries, and grammar manuals in various languages were found in Jefferson's library, suggesting that he studied additional languages beyond those he spoke and wrote well.

In The Heart of the Matter, a 2013 report sponsored by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a reader is confronted with language like this: «Among other benefits [studying the humanities] strengthens clarity of written and oral expression, critical and analytic reasoning, and the creativity to think outside the box.»

Anyway, I'm not aware of any other Bible Study software package that has this quantity and quality of original language resources.

The bible is one of the most well known books in the world, has been translated into more languages than any other book, and has been studied extensively.

Those who have had even a modicum of language study, however, should opt for one of the first five concordances — or one of the other original - language competitors.

While these are properly regarded as special subjects of study and are taught as separate disciplines, skill in reasoning and in the use of language is also a necessary aspect of every other intellectual discipline.

The time has come for us to encourage the study of languages of regions other than one's own for research.

He must probe further, studying the religious experience on which theology and other modes of expression (behavior, rites, language) are based.

Studies comparing different languages suggest that some languages are better than others at sensitizing us to certain kinds of experience.

They give up their old friends, interests, desires, hobbies, and tastes, and instead hang out just with other Christians while studying an ancient book and speaking an arcane language that nobody else understands.

Start with the studies done by Jane Goodall, and then continue with a HUGE variety of other animal studies that PROVE animals have morals, they use tools, build societies and cultures, have their own languages (such as the prarie dogs... simple little rodents right?

Here is the sheer miracle of it: a literature that long antedated our glorious gains in science and the immense scope of modern knowledge, which moves in the quiet atmosphere of the ancient countryside, with camels and flocks and roadside wells and the joyous shout of the peasant at vintage or in harvest — this literature, after all that has intervened, is still our great literature, published abroad as no other in the total of man's writing, translated into the world's great languages and many minor ones, and cherished and loved and studied so earnestly as to set it in a class apart.

Studying the Bible, the original languages, the cultural context, what the writer was trying to say to his original audience and how they would have understood it, and other similar considerations may help us develop a better «paper theology».

Humboldt states in his monograph on the dual that, though the study of language should be pursued for its own sake, it «resembles other branches of learning in not having its ultimate purpose in itself but that it conforms to the general purpose of interest in the human mind to help humanity to realize its true nature and its relation to everything visible and invisible around and above itself.»

Kelly's summary of the trends in the curriculum of Oberlin Seminary applies to many others as well: «The program of study was changing from the dogmatic to the practical, from the ecclesiocentric to the socio - centric... «34 More recent examinations show the continuation of these emphases in our time though they also show a revival of interest in systematic and exegetical theology and in the Biblical languages.

however i will add that because the latin speaking world was controled by laws of language usage, i don; t know if you have ever studied latin but it has more laws then any other spoken tongue i have ever heard of.

On the other hand I recently read a study that Chinese Asians supposedly have perfect pitch (which is how Chinese can be a perfect - pitch language).

oh well you can laugh David but always when I make a recipe I study a little, language, food has differents names in others countries so my «work «is the people not only like the recipe they have to understand.

* Preliminary results from an Oxford - based study suggest a higher proportion of infant - directed negativity in the way depressed fathers talk about, and to, their infants (Sethna et al, 2009) * Depressed fathers are less likely to read, sing songs and tell stories to their babies than other fathers — and than depressed mothers (Paulson et al, 2006), which may explain why fathers» depression has a more powerful negative impact than mothers» depression on their infants» language development in the first year.

Others prefer to study a foreign language or take an art class as their elective.

For the purposes of our study, the vocabulary used in referring to other studies reflects the language used in the original citation.

Increasing amounts of research have shown that infants and toddlers have a critical need for direct interactions with parents and other regular caregivers for healthy brain growth.82, — , 84 In addition, the results of 7 studies have shown that infants younger than 18 months who are exposed to TV may suffer from a delay in language development, and 1 study revealed that infant videos may delay language development.85, — , 91 No studies have documented a benefit of early viewing.92

Yet those who do «blow bubbles» and display other complex mouth movements like licking their lips tend to pick up language more quickly as toddlers, a recent study found.

McCluskey said Spanish was chosen because students at Glenbard West High School in Glen Ellyn choose to study Spanish over other languages offered.

Your main obligation is to cover the 8 Key learning Areas (KLAs)- science, maths, English, the arts, studies of society and environment, technology, language other than English and health and physical education.

Other studies have linked insufficient levels of vitamin D during pregnancy with language impairment in children at 5 and 10 years of age.

Now, a new British study has found that parents» language can affect children's ability to understand and sympathize with others» emotions as well.

Maternal responsiveness — the way mother (or other main caregiver) watches, understands and meets their child's needs — has been shown in study after study to be fundamentally important to everything from language acquisition, to social competence, to long term emotional well being.

The study concludes that Somalis and Congolese need to be targeted with intensive support, including help with language skills, such as interpreting / translation and English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) training.

Among other things, New York's draft ESSA plan takes some of the emphasis on math and English language arts and spreads it to science and social studies.

While a clinician may find it difficult to parse whether a patient's stilted conversational manner is rooted in a lack of emotional connection or problems forming words, a brain scan in Belger's study made it clear, for example, that particular symptoms were more closely associated with disruption in the brain's emotional processing areas, whereas other symptoms were more closely associated with regions responsible for language and motor control.

In a similar study Gratch co-authored with ICT senior research associate Gale Lucas and colleagues in 2016, participants were shown to often misread honesty when negotiating with each other because reassuring cues like head movement, positive language and even smiling signal honesty, but actually more frequently represent dishonest action and behaviors.

«The study of the Dravidian languages is crucial for understanding prehistory in Eurasia, as they played a significant role in influencing other language groups,» explains corresponding author Annemarie Verkerk of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Today, he still combines his interests in language and science, teaching courses in scientific communication, energy policy, and other subjects at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies of the University of Washington in Seattle, while also writing books.

Neurobiologist Erich Jarvis has spent the last 25 years studying the molecular mechanisms underlying the capacity for spoken language, one of the crucial traits that differentiates humans from other animals.

Past studies comparing the language - learning abilities of humans and other primates have looked at what monkeys can do with human language.

The study builds on earlier work by Kuhl's team, which found that babies from English - speaking households could learn Mandarin from live tutors, but not from video or audio recordings of Mandarin and from other work at I - LABS establishing the importance of infant eye gaze for language learning.

This study reveals that if you want to spread your ideas far and wide, some languages are much better — and slightly more surprising — than others.

A wealth of new studies, she said, suggest that children learn language from listening to others but are not as well - equipped as adults to cope with the cacophony of modern life.

Older age, lower education, psychotic illness, being a visible minority and having a native language other than English or French were associated with poorer cognitive performance; however these indicators could explain only part of the neurocognitive difficulties observed in this study.

On the other hand, studies have shown that learning another language can help school - age children do better in math and can delay the onset of dementia in older adults.

It is true («as we replicated in our study» explains Langus) that the rhythm of spoken language influenced the perception of the sounds of other languages.