The minute-long ad, "The French Connection," includes a cheesy bistro accordion tune and juxtaposes Mr. Romney welcoming the world to the Salt Lake City Olympics in French – "Je m'appelle Mitt Romney" – with a clip of the French-speaking John Kerry, whose knowledge of the tongue of Molière was used to stamp him as elitist during his failed bid for the presidency in 2004.
But, protests, Campbell, "such collections convey the knowledge of no tongue whatever".
With little or no knowledge of the foreign tongue, we go for an approximation that makes some kind of sense in terms of both sound and meaning.
Many of these ex-Soviet Germans had little or no knowledge of their "mother" tongue.Among EU countries, Germany also has the most generous policy towards refugees.
Fan of Lady Gaga or John Legend but can't make out what on earth they're babbling about on Twitter due to your lackluster knowledge of the English tongue?
The education there was based on erudition, the eventual goal being that by the age of 18 the students would have learned "to vary one sentence diversely, to make a verse exactly, to endight an epistle eloquently and learnedly, to declaim of a theme simple, and last of all to attain some competent knowledge of the Greek tongue".
Some, including Mr Kagame, arrived with only a basic knowledge of kinyarwanda, the local tongue.
It also explored the awareness and knowledge of subjects in relation to presence of tongue lesions, etiological factor, symptoms, and treatment received if any.
At some point during this odyssey, Kussi rediscovered an interest in his native tongue, his knowledge of which had dwindled to what he dismissively called "kitchen Czech" — a vestigial means of communicating with his parents.
Tables 3 and 4 also provide information on both "knowledge of official languages" and "mother tongue".
