Sentence examples for bilingual as from inspiring English sources

Almost all of the students were bilingual, as is the first author, and there was some discussion about the value of both languages in the group that was prompted by some exchanges in Spanish by group members.

Schoolchildren, he believes, should be encouraged "to become as bilingual as they possibly can be".

He said that living on Jersey one is bilingual as much of the population is French.

But in 1983, with democracy firmly entrenched across Spain, laws were passed making Catalonia as bilingual as possible.

In 1969, he persuaded Parliament to enact a bill making Canada officially bilingual as a way to heal French-English division.

What I'd love to see is an emphasis that this is an added value that that child has, a talent, and we should aspire to allow other children who may be monolingual to strive to become as bilingual as they possibly can be".

Labeling was independently performed by the two authors, both of whom were Mandarin-Min bilinguals as well as trained phoneticians, using the Praat software (Boersma and Weenink 2009).

The current study addressed these methodological problems by examining performance in picture naming tasks in 34 4- to 7-year-old Spanish English bilinguals and 52 Mandarin English bilinguals as well as 37 English-speaking monolinguals who served as controls.

Phonetic realizations of all the target syllables were independently labeled by the two authors, both of whom were Mandarin-Min bilinguals as well as trained phoneticians, using the Praat software (Boersma and Weenink 2017).

You can't help but wonder whether the theatre could, given the opportunity, produce a definitive bilingual play as powerful as, say, Brian Friel's Translations.

From there and Columbia up through the minors and now the majors, Perez — dark skinned, bilingual and as friendly as he is bright — has mixed comfortably with all ingredients of baseball's cultural bouillabaisse.