Sentence examples for aptitude for language from inspiring English sources

Some of us just don't have strong aptitude for language learning.

But that raised another question: Did heightened activity correspond to a greater aptitude for language?

"I had four years of first-year French in high school," she said, adding that her mother, a French teacher, seemed to think her daughter had no aptitude for language.

While many claim to have an aptitude for language learning, studies suggest no hyperpolyglot can maintain more than seven or eight languages to a high standard at any one time because of working memory limitations.

"First of all you need aptitude for language learning," says DeKeyser.

Gardner ([1985]), for example, believes that attitude and other affective variables are as important as aptitude for language achievement.

Although I have no aptitude for languages, I always make the effort.

And though he wanted to master French, he dropped it when he discovered he had little aptitude for languages.

His first language was German, and from a young age he showed a great aptitude for languages, including Hebrew.

Col. Plummer, who has an aptitude for languages, holds a government post, one of a number of such he has held in various foreign places.

It has a complex admissions system largely related to faith criteria, but with some places reserved for students with an aptitude for languages.