The phrase "a skill for languages" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's ability or talent in learning or using multiple languages effectively.
Example: "She has a remarkable skill for languages, allowing her to communicate fluently in five different tongues."
Alternatives: "a talent for languages" or "an aptitude for languages".
Considering the present results together with previous literature, left-hemispheric segmental and right-hemispheric suprasegmental information processing are presumed to be executed in parallel, and children seem to depend more on the right-hemispheric suprasegmental processing while acquiring unfamiliar or low-frequency words, which might be an important skill for foreign language learning.
The High Level Language Aptitude Battery (Hi-Lab) measures the key skills for language acquisition: Working memory, associative memory and implicit learning.
For the purpose of this study, the children completed subtests that provided a measure of their skills for Core Language, Receptive Language, and Expressive Language.
After all, her main skill set — a knack for language and bombast — overlapped nicely with that of most successful hip-hop artists.
"There is a need for language skills," she said.
Arguing for a subject-specific and skills-oriented approach in teaching Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP) in the university, it outlines possible targets and skills for a language course for engineers.
The media, too, is an underused tool for language skills.
Being able to read body language is an essential skill for athletes who need to think quickly on the field or court.
Music may be a "skill... more fundamental than language" for refining the ability of the brain to make spatial and temporal distinctions, says Merzenich.
This kind of inspired taxonomy requires two skills: sharp eyes and an appetite for language, and Leach possesses both in spades.
La Gomera is famous for the whistling language (a skill acquired from the extinct Guanches people) used by natives of the island to communicate from hilltop to hilltop.
