Although he is a Welsh speaker and his wife Lisa has learned the language, Mr Jones said their children learned English first because that was the language at home.
But many are well educated, with good language skills learned at religious schools and strong international support networks - many Christian churches are international.
Frustrated with the clinic, they enrolled Jacob in sign-language education, and then learned the language so that they could communicate with him.
What about the existence of a learned language, or a literary language?
He learned the language as a child, talking to immigrant workers on his father's farm.
To do this, I have learned their language, studied their culture, and lived among them.
Shalikashvili, a teenager who spoke no English, learned the language by watching John Wayne movies.
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Because I have a Spanish-speaking mom and learned the language at home and at summer camps, I wanted to do theater in Spanish or in a mix of both English and Spanish.
For example, some people have not adequately learned to read body language cues.
Addressing how he'd evolved since managing in New York, he referred to his experience managing in Japan, where he learned to adapt across language and cultural barriers.
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For many centuries, even millennia, the world got by without translation: the people of different nations simply learned enough of the next door language to communicate adequately.
"We learned that to take an English-language production across the border is a mistake, " says Moran.
She spoke a pre-Inca language, Aymara, and through a translator I learned that she was explaining her success at feeding her kids for the first time in her life.
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Nikki Johnson said her parents were channel surfing Sunday -- looking for a cartoon for their granddaughter to watch -- when they saw video of their Shoshana being broadcast by Spanish-language television station Telemundo, before the family had even learned she was missing.
The vast majority chose English and learned very fast, as well as enriching the language.
He learned Portuguese, Latin and Spain's official language, Castilian, so that he could read geography books and try and map the world.
When they're informed that a PG-13 contains "language, some intense situations and smoking, " what have they learned?
One of Ghosn's first moves at Nissan was a shocker: He decreed that English, not Japanese, would be the official language of the Tokyo company, and he made it known that managers who learned English would advance faster than those who spoke only Japanese.
They soon learned to browse the Web in English, even though they lacked facility in the language.
But as we recently learned at CES, the company's gearing up to offer Android and Spanish-language versions.
Equipped with proprietary machine-learned automated translation technology, the browser considerably expands the browsing territory for those who speak only one language.
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