Sentence examples for language expedition from inspiring English sources

Which, distant from his Stoppardian trademark, still is a wonderful language expedition.

They're on a fishing expedition".

Because he did not speak Sacagawea's language and because the expedition party needed to communicate with the Shoshones to acquire horses to cross the mountains, the explorers agreed that the pregnant Sacagawea should also accompany them.

Trips range from four-week to three-month team expeditions that combine learning a language with volunteer projects and expeditions.

On average, every two weeks one of the world's recorded 7,000 languages becomes extinct, and the expedition was seeking to document and help preserve the endangered ones in these isolated villages.

They armed Guaraní Indians against slaving expeditions, while nourishing the language in books and sermons.

Meanwhile, Jesuits created communities for the Guaraní and other indigenous groups covering vast expanses, as depicted in the 1986 film "The Mission". They armed Guaraní Indians against slaving expeditions, while nourishing the language in books and sermons.

Communication between the two expeditions was limited by language difficulties, though the Norwegians gathered that the Japanese were heading for King Edward VII Land.

Thereafter, Heyerdahl became a media star: his book, "The Kon-Tiki Expedition," was translated into multiple languages and a 1950 documentary about the expedition won an Oscar.

According to Dr. Welcher, a language becomes extinct every two weeks, and expeditions into every remote area are financially impossible.

The first landing party went ashore the next day, led by a Polish Jew who was the expedition's interpreter and whose languages included Arabic and Hindi.