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The phrase "a secondary language" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a language that is not the primary language spoken by an individual or group, often learned in addition to a first language.
Example: "In many countries, English is taught as a secondary language in schools."
Alternatives: "a second language" or "an additional language".
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Through the years, many graduations in color of the islanders have evolved a secondary language Creole, a sort of patois based on the old Carib tongue.
Early 21st-century census data indicated that some 38 million individuals spoke Kannada as their first language; another 9 to 10 million were thought to speak it as a secondary language.
Census (2001) reported that 10.35% of the population speaks English as a secondary language.
Attempts have been made to develop models of composition rating in the contexts of English as a first language (L1) and English as a secondary language (ESL) on the base of data collected from TAPA (Freedman and Calfee 1983; Wolfe 1997, 2006; Lumley 2006).
It is the mother tongue for the majority of world Jewry and a secondary language for growing numbers in the other countries where Jews live".
It is also chiefly spoken in the states of Kerala, Puducherry and Andaman and Nicobar Islands as a secondary language and by minorities in Karnataka & Andhra Pradesh.
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Learn some sayings, proverbs, pet names, exclamations or everyday terms in any secondary language in your story.
French is an important secondary language, and Spanish is widely spoken.
The five love languages first grew to prominence with the publication of Gary Chapman's book The Five Love Languages, which postulates that everyone has a primary and secondary language through which they give and receive love.
The use of the primary language has been observed to engage eye contact from the infant in a way that secondary language does not.
Or search for any other "organization" where you have an environment in which the secondary language is spoken, such as cultural associations.. Or search for any other "organization" where you have an environment in which the secondary language is spoken, such as cultural associations.
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