Sentence examples for like a native language from inspiring English sources

He posited that for Ms. Devi, "the manipulation of numbers is apparently like a native language, whereas for most of us arithmetic calculation is at best like the foreign language we learned in school".

"For a calculating prodigy like Devi, the manipulation of numbers is apparently like a native language, whereas for most of us, arithmetic calculation is at best like the foreign language we learnt at school," Jensen was quoted as saying.

He made the blues seem like both a native language and an alien custom, something to approach with wary curiosity.

When I was growing up, middle-class kids like me rarely admitted to understanding a native language, let alone speaking it.

Nobody in the cast has German as a native language.

Connecticut law recognizes the value of early second language instruction in a native language.

Mind you English wasn't a native language in Africa.

At times, a native language was preferred for precise expression.

Participants had German, Dutch, or French as a native language.

And it feels like hearing my native language in a foreign country.

Like Burton, he seems to have transcended the notion that each of us is wedded to a single native language.