Sentence examples for handful of languages from inspiring English sources

He devoured European literature and easily mastered a handful of languages.

The only downside is that there are only packages available for a handful of languages, not including Arabic or Mandarin.

All forms of music, a handful of languages, malt whisky, fierce polemical arguments with family and close friends.

And literature was still seen as a western thing, written in a handful of languages, of which an educated judge could probably read most.Since then, prizes have proliferated.

In the end, however, Esperanto's failure to become universal came down to the same pressures that threaten the rest: the handful of languages that are truly global.

The e-mail programs of Microsoft and Yahoo let users get messages in a handful of languages but require special software.

By the time Claudia Kirschhoch set foot in Jamaica, she had lived in France for a year and had taken a handful of language courses.

Contemporary with Freud a handful of language scholars were tuning into the idea that verbal mistakes, examined closely enough, followed certain patterns and could shed light on the way language works.

A handful of words from languages other than English - café latté, gelato, scampi - are also now considered permissible in French in Quebec.

Personally, I have perfect knowledge of Russian, fluent but unsophisticated Spanish, wobbly German and sketchy reading knowledge in a handful of other languages.

People are increasingly expected to speak, read and write at least one of a handful of "super" languages, such as English, Chinese, Hindi, Spanish or Arabic, as well.