Sentences with phrase «unfamiliar language»

However, insurance policies are often written in unfamiliar language and filled with references to other parts of the policy that are equally difficult to read out of context.

Other research shows that newborns can discriminate between their native language and unfamiliar language by listening to pitch and rhythm.

The difficulty is that this time the ideas are offered in a new unfamiliar language and a system difficult to appreciate and apply.

However, insurance policies are often written in unfamiliar language and filled with references to other parts of the policy that are equally difficult to read out of context.

Monolingual translation might also help soldiers or aid workers react quickly in countries with unfamiliar languages; responding to a bombing in Indonesia or an earthquake in Haiti, for instance.

Working internationally offers exciting professional opportunities, but it also presents challenges such as unfamiliar languages, food, climate, currency, and local customs.

These struggles for students reflect a process of learning that we all must face in adult life: understanding unfamiliar languages, cultures and social contexts when working with groups of people in every sphere, from business to education and health.

Marthona heard Ayla's words, wondered at her strange speech mannerism, noted how well she spoke in spite of it, and thought it was either a minor speech defect or the accent of a completely unfamiliar language from a very distant place.

Hiring experts on the ground in each country, collecting documents from countries with privacy laws that differ from those of the United States, and dealing with documents written in unfamiliar languages are some of the many challenges counsel must overcome.

The ability to read a second or foreign language can be of great benefit to academics, business people, politicians, professionals and migrants trying to master an unfamiliar language.

We tested voice - recognition abilities of dyslexic and control listeners for voices speaking listeners» native language or an unfamiliar language.

Although the mental imagery overwhelmed Shereshevsky, it also helped him remember everything he devoted his attention to, such as written letters and lines of poetry in an unfamiliar language.

By measuring infants» rate of habituation, the researchers were able to independently measure whether infants had formed positive or negative evaluations of people speaking familiar and unfamiliar languages.

By the age of one, infants already prefer speakers of their native tongue, but do not necessarily view speakers of an unfamiliar language negatively, according to new UBC research.

Infants of this age, however, do not appear to have any positive or negative expectations of speakers of an unfamiliar language, suggesting that negativity toward groups different from their own is likely learned after the first year of life, the researchers found.

The experiments examined how quickly infants habituated to either familiar or unfamiliar language speakers performing prosocial (giving) behaviour or antisocial (taking) behaviour.

Seidel isn't scared off by a different culture and an unfamiliar language.

That's also why emotional speech from an unfamiliar language isn't featured on the radio!

You might be wary of being in an unfamiliar place with an unfamiliar language.

The first few days after I moved to America, I was overwhelmed by all the unfamiliar language and things.

For young people, there comes the additional burden of attempting to continue — or, in many cases, begin — their education in an unfamiliar place, in an unfamiliar language.

Landing in an airport with everything labeled in an unfamiliar language, I can identify -LSB-...]

Unfamiliar language and cryptic codes can be found throughout many financial aid awards.

It may be in an unfamiliar language, but it is the spiritual chance of a lifetime.

Whomever voices Karen clearly isn't a native English speaker, delivering her lines in jarring fashion.This is sort of acceptable because through the narration you can at least believe that this is a Norwegian attempting to speak to someone in an unfamiliar language, relaying the entire tale to someone else.

From a technical standpoint, I demonstrated that I can't write a new game engine in an unfamiliar language in two days, even if I assemble most of it from open - source libraries.

It might be possible for someone to write an engine in a familiar language in that amount of time, or learn to use an unfamiliar language, but probably not both at the same time.

It's a psychological battle to live in an unfamiliar place, let alone live in an unfamiliar language, and the use of broken English depicts that mental frustration to express oneself with a cold accuracy, ensuring the book is undertoned with a gritty realism.

I was celebrating Kwanzaa, hearing this unfamiliar language, Swahili, and seeing black soap and chew sticks around the house, things that were about applying an Africanness to one's self.»

They strain toward an image, perhaps of nature or of a person, perhaps toward a signature or a mark in an unfamiliar language.

If you're in a foreign country, the local rules and unfamiliar language may be additional barriers that make the process more difficult.

Cities often have quite a few centrally located stations and when the stations are in another language, especially an unfamiliar language without English translation, first time travelers can find themselves in a train station down the road from where they are supposed to be.

You shouldn't have to worry about region blocks or browsing libraries in an unfamiliar language.