Sentence examples for but a second language from inspiring English sources

But a second language shouldn't be an optional luxury.

That seems an unnatural place for language, but a second language always retains its brilliant, opiate character, especially if you are a poet whose every perception and process is articulated through it: voluptuousness, thick glass, poppies, opiates.

The interviews were carried out in English, the working language of health workers in Uganda but a second language for most people.

One of the first stories I ever published was narrated by a Frenchman, and every book I've written has had at least one character who speaks English well, but as a second language.

But speaking a second language is about much, much more than simply knowing vocabulary and grammatical structures; it can actually change the way you view the world.

Not only are so many of its pupils learning English as a second language, but many of them are poor and their parents move around a lot.

For me, these words are not learned as one learns a second language, but permanently imprinted in my brain as part of my first.

Or maybe Burchill was on to something when she said that speech felt like a second language, but writing was her mother tongue.

He planned to teach high school English, but instead taught English as a second language for many years on the Lower East Side.

There were awkward moments — irony and comic timing aren't second nature in a second language — but Prokhorov came across as charming, shrewd and, for an N.B.A. owner, insanely colorful.

We have a very large E.S.L. program" for students for whom English is a second language, "but we break it up by semester and every semester we evaluate the students again, so they can move along as quickly as possible.