Sentence examples for a knowledge of languages from inspiring English sources

Maybe they feared that a knowledge of languages would expose me, too, to the blandishments of Europe, that wonderful, murderous continent".

That's some damn good localization, because it requires a knowledge of language and a sense of humor.

That's some damn good localisation, because it requires a knowledge of language and a sense of humour.

With a knowledge of 29 languages he was employed at the U.S. Postal Service for more than 30 years and after that became a professional translator.

They came home not only with new scientific and technical skills but also with a knowledge of Western languages and literatures.

For a country that considers itself the world's superpower, its citizens are shockingly deficient when it comes to having a knowledge of foreign languages.

Problems are structured to provide students with a knowledge of visual language along with a development of expressive content.

Communicating a Broadway show to the deaf demands not just a knowledge of sign language, Ms. Penn and Mr. Champion say, but a thorough familiarity with the production.

He cannot do without a knowledge of the language of the people he is studying, and often he has had to make the first survey of it.

"Shackle-y", though not in dictionaries, is the kind of thing available to English speakers with a knowledge of their language's word-building rules.

Bligh's three visits to Tahiti gave him a knowledge of its language and customs that was probably not equaled among Europeans in the 18th century.