Sentence examples for language picking from inspiring English sources

If you've never written a line of code, let me let you in on a not-so-secret secret: once you're pretty good at one programming language, picking up others becomes a whole lot easier.

Some suggestions include reading books, drawing/painting, learning simple arithmetic, engaging in basic grammar exercises, learning a foreign language, picking up an instrument, and learning new vocabulary words through drawing pictures.

So concierges try to read body language, pick up clues and quickly learn a person's tastes.

But that was language picked up from previous treaties and did not prevent the union's deeply painful split on Iraq, which pitted countries like France and Germany against Spain and Britain.

They have to be able to read body language, pick up on changes of vocal tone and call on other communication skills".

In some way, I felt that I had already learned a new language, "picked it up," like Zadie Smith, "in college, along with the unabridged Clarissa and a taste for port".

If you're looking to learn your first language, pick one that seems forgiving (JavaScript isn't a bad one to get your feet wet), wrap your head around the core universal concepts of programming, then start worrying about all the little differences.

Learn some phrases in a new language, pick up a new skill, or try a new food.

They were workers for hire, often on the move, traveling far, crossing ethnic lines, learning languages, picking up tips on foreign taste from traders, testing new styles as they went, offering new fads and fashions to the elite clientele who paid their way.

Did anyone with an ear for languages pick out what it is that she was thinking?

Some Romance languages pick out the object of the verb, if it is a person, by an additional particle: Spanish Pedro llama a Pablo; Romanian Petru cheamă pe Pavel.