Sentence examples for knowing the language from inspiring English sources
(When, later, the government tried to cut funds for Indian colonial colleges teaching Arabic and Sanskrit, Mill fought to keep the practice going, for fear of losing all contact with the élites. "Without knowing the language of a people, we never really know their thoughts, their feelings, and their type of character," he wrote).
And knowing the language isn't necessary as long as you know the culture.
Anna's this American teenager getting to know her extended Italian family for the first time, without knowing the language and she's also dealing with her parents divorce, and all the terrible and wonderful things being a thirteen-year-old entails.
Knowing only a few words of English -- "You can't do very much without knowing the language," Mr. Petrosian said -- the grandmother is the last among her immediate family in Yonkers to become and American citizen.
"Not knowing the language well, I wasn't ready for it all.
Navigating a foreign city without knowing the language can be tricky at first.
There is a growing consensus (if not funding) around the importance of young people in the U.S. knowing the languages and cultures of other countries.
When you're traveling, you really open up so many doors by knowing the local language.
The central character in this story is Walter Evans-Wentz (1878-1965), an eccentric scholar and spiritual seeker from Trenton, New Jersey, who, despite not knowing the Tibetan language and never visiting the country, crafted and named The Tibetan Book of the Dead.
Not knowing the local language is the biggest obstacle in the way of successful expat assignments because it leads to bigger challenges like relocating family, finding appropriate housing, and organizing tax affairs, etc.
Approaching the viewing platform, I caught a moment in an accompanying video where Ai, walking moodily in a park in Berlin, says in voiceover that he too is a refugee, exiled from China, and not knowing the German language, he is adrift.
