Sentence examples for When languages from inspiring English sources

When languages die under the pressure of a dominant tongue like Spanish, there is a familiar path of retreat.

When languages share similar words and patterns, it's easier to apply your knowledge of one language to another and thus make your way around certain regions of the world.

This discrimination would represent a return to the years when languages were studied exclusively in independent and grammar schools.

Linguists, however, have long been able to determine when languages are related, even if they sound totally unconnected.

Even when languages were compulsory in the late 1990s, a large number of pupils abandoned them or achieved very little".

"Mother Tongue," which had its première in 2005, addresses the power of language to shape consciousness, and what is lost when languages die away.

Odd things happen when language is globalised.

That magic window when language acquisition is effortless has closed.

But when language is crumbling, "Remember when?" and "Remember me?" cannot make a person whole again.

"Poetry," she says, "is not about language but about what happens when language gets impossible".

When language should have been the next step, there was silence.