Sentence examples for learn a local language from inspiring English sources

An innate capacity for language, for example, makes it possible to learn a local language.

Duolingo is helpful for learning the basics of a local language.

If you are thinking of learning a foreign language, why not consider learning a local one first: the language of your own garden and countryside.

For those who prefer green beans to Kobe beef, learning how to say this in a local language is your passport to meat-free eating.

On the other hand, many of the technical staff don?t speak English, and you are never really going to get past the surface of a place if you don?t learn the local language.

If Thomas was suddenly forced to leave America and live in a Middle Eastern country would he be quick to learn the local language, embrace local traditions and forsake his own values like he expects these immigrants to do? Would he stop celebrating Christmas and Easter and instead embrace Muslim holidays?

Perhaps most significantly for a foreigner contemplating a research stint in a foreign country, it is an established fact that most Dutch people speak English, the lingua franca of global science, and that one could in all likelihood complete an entire PhD or postdoc without bothering to learn the local language.

This means that newly minted expats face little pressure to learn the local language.

So why not learn the local language on your Erasmus year abroad?

The immigrant element generally saw little need to learn the local language or to identify with the native population.

No attempt was made to encourage the some 24 million Russians living outside Russia to learn the local language of their area.