Sentence examples for local tongue from inspiring English sources

She also lives for eating in foreign locales, walking the streets and photographing new cities (Flickr), and learning the local tongue.

None had ever bothered to learn the local tongue.

Some, including Mr Kagame, arrived with only a basic knowledge of kinyarwanda, the local tongue.

Only 0.2 percent of these Russians claimed mastery of the local tongue in 1989.

Kathryn, not speaking the local tongue, has to "read" the situation with her photographer's eye.

But a billboard near the Central Bank of Montenegro proclaims in the local tongue: "The euro.

The ironic, experimental film, whose title was based on a local tongue-twister, was influenced by the Nouvelle Vague and won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno film festival.

Yet, local tongues, including Estonian, were often suppressed.

Descendants of Indian, Javanese and Hakka Chinese indentured labourers have evolved their own local tongues.

Since only around 15% of the firm's employees have English as a first language, says Christian Standaert, the head of ArcelorMittal University, the firm needs to provide lots of training in local tongues.

Named perhaps for its three local tongues, Indian, Spanish and English, Terlingua had a population of 2,500 in 1918, during its mining heyday; by 1970 it had dropped to 25.