Sentences with phrase «than their mother tongue»

Communicating effectively with an outsourcing vendor, especially one that is operating in a language other than its mother tongue, is a consummate challenge.

Even with a plan to create a common language in a few decades, it is a fact that a large part of the EU citizenry does not speak English or perhaps any other language than their mother tongue.

Join the countries of Europe in celebrating the thousands of languages spoken worldwide on 26 September and take the opportunity to encourage students to speak languages other than their mother tongue.

This happiness is much similar to that moment when a person learns a secondary language other than the mother tongue.

Even with high levels of fluency or proficiency, it takes longer to process information in a language other than your mother tongue.

Not exact matches

The intelligence that one's runaway daughter had given her life to Christ, been baptized in a bathtub, and taken up residence with a bunch of barefoot, long - haired, guitar - strumming, tongues - speaking twenty - year - olds in a place called Maranatha House was only marginally less disturbing to the average Methodist mother than the news that the same daughter had moved in with a professional tabla drummer and changed her name to Windflower.

Bonham Carter delivers Elizabeth's acid - tongued and quick wit superbly, allowing us a peek of a much warmer Elizabeth than many would believe of the real future Queen Mother.

Conventional wisdom holds that language acquisition in adulthood can not rest on the same brain mechanisms used in processing a native languagethat is, a language learned later in life is processed in a fundamentally different and less automatic way than is a mother tongue.

«Reading emotions in a second language: When reading, we»em body» less than in our mother tongue.»

Most Filipina girls know more than one languages and English comes after their mother tongue.

More tongue - in - cheek than anything else, but who can deny that Javier Bardem very much undervalues Jennifer Lawrence and their baby in «mother!»

Raised by an acid - tongued single mother (Allison Janney — much more on her later) in a part of Portland, Oregon that's more Winter's Bone than Portlandia, Tonya says from the start she's a redneck, and proud of it.

Kenyan teachers are trained and certified, but they don't typically speak the mother tongue of their students — a problem faced in other countries, Hayba says (see sidebar)-- and they are much more expensive than teachers culled from the ranks of the Somalia refugees.

An insight into what international Kindle users are pushed to do to get book in their mother tongue and why it would be much better if Amazon created a possibility to publish books in more languages than six currently supported.

You're more likely to encounter someone who speaks Urdu or Russian in Moncton than someone who speaks Portuguese, their mother tongue.

If you want to insult someone then it's probably best to do it in your mother tongue rather than take words and phrases and translate them from Inuit, or whichever language you're using.

Chances are they speak no language other than their own and would probably not be inclined to read and fully understand the law of another country other than in their mother tongue.

I've just learned that in our new class here at the University of Calgary, we'll have no fewer than 44 different undergraduate institutions represented — 17 mother tongues, apart from English and French, are spoken.

It also means that the more than seven million people in Canada who consider French their first language can not read an official version of their country's Constitution in their mother tongue.