Professor Morford says signers are like English learners whose first language uses a different alphabet.

VOA: special.2011.04.13

That's a term that first entered the English language sometime in the mid-nineteenth century, but of course the concept goes earlier.

这个词在19世纪中期,第一次出现在英语中，当然概念产生得早些。

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The challenges that... First of all, you got to understand that learning a language takes time.

挑战就是，首先，你必须明白学习一门语言是件耗时间的事。

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In a crisis,first responders know to look for the card on the refrigerator, to learn the victim's language and other important information.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

The first one is, whether this is a high-level or low-level language.

第一个是，不管这是一个高级或者是低级的语言。

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Restrepo,who has family ties to Colombia, also answered questions in Spanish from regional reporters, marking the first time in recent memory that a dual language press briefing was held at the White House.

VOA: standard.2009.04.13

First of all, it suggests of course that he was giving language to something, making a specific image out of something, that didn't quite have that specific content in his experience as a child.

第一，这的确可以反映出,他是在描述东西，运用某种东西来描述一个形象，在他作为孩子的经历中,那东西没有特殊的意义。

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It turns out that if you start learning a language, a second language is where most of the work's been done, within the first few years of life you're fine.

如果你在出生的头几年里开始学习一门语言,非常努力地学习了第二门语言,那么你一切正常

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If you are in a country where English is not the first language,

如果你在一个英语不是第一语言的国家，

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