Sentence examples for first-language speakers. from inspiring English sources

It was at Berkeley that the Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival (an indigenous nonprofit organization) collaborated with Prof. Leanne Hinton to create the Breath of Life Archival Institute; now in its third decade, this program helps revive dormant languages by recovering archival material for California Indian languages with no or few living first-language speakers.

The Linguistics Department has supported academic endeavors including the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, the California Language Archive and the Breath of Life Archival Institute, a program that helps revive dormant languages by recovering archival material for California Indian languages with no or few living first-language speakers.

One of the few remaining fluent first-language speakers of Hupa, in the early 2000s she got involved with Hupa revitalization and documentation activities, serving as a consulting expert on the Hupa language for various projects and classes in Hoopa Valley.

All speakers were first-language speakers of Standard Chinese from Northeastern China, aged between 23 and 45.

This dictionary is indispensable for learners and first-language speakers of Welsh alike and should find a place in homes, schools and offices throughout Wales; also in libraries and universities world-wide.

"In some schools in London in the last few decades, you've had immigrant-descent children who are learning English as a second language alongside the first-language speakers, so non-native words end up in the latter's English as well".

However, in 19 local authorities outside the main urban areas, non-first-language speakers are lagging behind by around 10 per cent at GCSE.

According to the most recent 2015 Ethnologue estimates, there are just over 98 million speakers – 16 million first language speakers; 82 million second language speakers.

Student success rates have been high in the first two years (100 and 93%), but some concern remains as to the actual learning outcomes, particularly in relation to the depth of learning, and the ability of non-first language speakers of English to fully engage with the course material.

In 2013 the difference between native and second language speakers achieving the national benchmark fell to just 2.6 per cent.

Of special significance is Swahili, a lingua franca that has 5,000,000 native speakers but some 30,000,000 second-language speakers.