The phrase "a knowledge of the language" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's understanding or familiarity with a particular language.
Example: "To work effectively in this role, you must have a knowledge of the language used in our industry."
Alternatives: "an understanding of the language" or "familiarity with the language".
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.
The survival of Greek culture in the region among the descendants of Hellenic colonists was an added attraction for the educated Roman classes, for whom a knowledge of the language and literature had become an essential attainment.
Curiously, the knowledge of Greek was still not quite dead in Ireland even at this late date, and Eriugena brought a knowledge of the language with him.
Besides his theological works, Robert also searched throughout England for Hebrew texts of the works of Josephus, according to Gerald of Wales, who claimed that Robert had a knowledge of the Hebrew language.
This took him to Italy, where he soon added a knowledge of the country's language and literature to his earlier achievements.
It ranges from the elementary teaching of Latin through "rational grammar" (linguistics) to a knowledge of the sacred "Wisdom" languages.
On the other hand, QbE STD can be also employed for building language-independent STD systems [7, 8], which is mandatory when no or very limited training data are available to build a reliable speech recognition system, since a priori knowledge of the language involved in the speech data is not necessary.
During his year in Japan, he had encountered classic Japanese painting and sculpture for the first time, met leading scholars such as Nagatake Asano, and rapidly acquired a working knowledge of the language (as well as a love of its infuriatingly complex writing system).
A little knowledge of the language, laws, customs and geography of a destination can pay dividends in stressful situations.
Heritage speakers differ in the degree of their fluency and extent of their use of spoken Arabic, but they are often limited to a range of daily life topics and sometimes even have a passive knowledge of the language, i.e. they understand it but do not speak, read, or write it.
But stay with a clear and concise one if your reader only has a working knowledge of the language.
