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Example sentences for "foreign language"

  • French is a foreign language; Spanish is also a foreign language.

  • It has been remarked also, that in his great solicitude about the choice of words, he was indifferent enough to the value of his meaning; a very common failing of elegant scholars, when they write in a foreign language.

  • The streams of invention flowed too fast from his own mind to leave him time to accommodate the words of a foreign language to our own.

  • Mastery through Paraphrasing> It may be that you are not familiar with a foreign language.

  • Mastery through Translation> If you read a foreign language, whether laboriously or with ease, you should make this power assist you to amass a good English vocabulary.

  • Any student of a foreign language, German for instance, can recall the thrill of discovery and the lift of reawakened hope that came to him when first he suspected, aye perceived, the existence of verbal matrimony.

  • It is impossible to keep up a foreign language, an art, a science, if we are living away from other followers of our pursuit and cannot endure solitude.

  • Unfortunately an imperfect knowledge of a foreign language is of little use, as it does not give any real freedom of intercourse.

  • We would have them taught English as a foreign language--as an accomplishment, in fact.

  • Much of this arose from their examining chiefly in subjects that were taught in a foreign language.

  • If this work could be adequately done, it would not be necessary to hold the children back by teaching them a foreign language, only to be used to bridge a temporary gulf in their homes.

  • Let a word be introduced from a foreign language--let it have some resemblance in sound to a real English one: lastly, let the meanings of the two words be not absolutely incompatible.

  • He has found that a foreign language will be of use to him or has become necessary to him in his work.

  • Let us take the case of the youth or man who commences the study of a foreign language.

  • God in foreign language, understood by so many, could not convey such an impression.

  • Where the consciousness of the grace of salvation, and of a heavenly life springing from it, is first aroused in man, his own mother tongue verily, not a foreign language, will be the natural expression of his feelings.

  • Thirty-two can read and write a foreign language; 45.

  • Reads and writes a foreign language--5 read a little Eng.

  • Whenever a foreign language is perfectly acquired there are peculiar family conditions.

  • What time of day did he call on the phone and talk in a foreign language?

  • No; but then he talked to somebody on the phone, and talked in a foreign language.

  • You said that you heard him talk in a foreign language.

  • This piece of paper, which was folded over twice and was about 2" by 3" in size, contained some English writing and some writing which appeared to me to be in a foreign language which I could not identify.

  • She got on the phone later and said something, but she spoke in another, you know, a foreign language.

  • In the next place, if a certain range of information that you find indispensable is locked up in a foreign language, you are obliged to learn the language.

  • Some of the secondary uses present to his mind, at all events one of those that are put forward in argument, is that a foreign language, and especially Latin, conduces to good composition in our own language.

  • This anonymous writer[44] however, thought it necessary to make the interlinear English gloss much fuller than Bibbesworth had done, which shows that French had become more of a foreign language in the interval between the two works.

  • This may, perhaps, be taken as an indication of the extent to which French was regarded as a foreign language.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foreign language" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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