Sentence examples for do a language from inspiring English sources

Mike Boehm and Phan Van Do, a language teacher and translator.

This year it introduced a language entitlement for all students, so that they can do a language of their choice, such as Hausa, Hindi or Swahili or a major language like Arabic or Chinese, as an evening class.

As a teenager he found himself in France sleeping on a bench after plans to do a language course fell apart (a detail he doesn't seem to feel the need to elaborate on).

I thought it would hold steady while we were introducing languages lower down and I didn't expect so many heads to decide their kids didn't need to do a language.' Universities, too, blame schools for failing to instil in children the importance of learning languages for their future in a global economy.

'It's not a level playing field out there because schools have been playing dirty and saying you can do a language but it's in the same block as drama or other popular subjects, which loads it against us,' says Byrne, one of 50 academics who wrote to The Observer two years ago calling on the government to reverse its policy and reintroduce compulsory languages.

Though, as is common practice in studies of this sort, participants were misled about its true nature, and were shown films and asked to do a language test afterwards, to support this misdirection, what Dr Attwood and her team were really interested in was how quickly the various drinks would be drunk.The answer was that a full straight glass of beer was polished off in 11 minutes, on average.

It's likely that students who are thinking of doing a language more for employment reasons are starting to move towards these languages".

And sure enough, when we compared them with other active retired people who were doing a course on something else, we found in those who were doing a language course, the brain responds," Dr Sorace said.

"Doing a language course is a great way to making friends," Christoglou adds.

And his own biographical notes said he studied for a degree at Perugia University, when he only did a language course in that city.

Not only does a language barrier prevent non-English speaking workers from being aware of their rights, but it also contributes to unreported injuries in the workplace.